Does EWDK 1709 (aka 16299 aka RS3) still support NMake2MsBuild?

We have an old Windows 7 driver and it looks like we may have to slightly modify the driver for Windows 10. It uses the build.exe / nmake build environment. Is NMake2MsBuild still supported in the Enterprise WDK mentioned in the subject?

Thanks,
Rich

xxxxx@boeing.com wrote:

We have an old Windows 7 driver and it looks like we may have to slightly modify the driver for Windows 10. It uses the build.exe / nmake build environment. Is NMake2MsBuild still supported in the Enterprise WDK mentioned in the subject?

If you don’t want to go to the trouble, you can certainly keep using WDK
7 with “build” and friends.

If you do want to move forward, unless you’re doing something magical in
your makefiles, it’s way easier to create a dummy empty driver project
and modify it to add your files.  Nmake2msbuild was a nice concept, but
it had a tendency to create overly complicated project files.


Tim Roberts, xxxxx@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

plus those conversion projects were a nightmare on upgrades of visual
studio. Best to just bite the bullet and recreate the project from scratch

Mark Roddy

On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 5:16 PM, xxxxx@probo.com wrote:

> xxxxx@boeing.com wrote:
> > We have an old Windows 7 driver and it looks like we may have to
> slightly modify the driver for Windows 10. It uses the build.exe / nmake
> build environment. Is NMake2MsBuild still supported in the Enterprise WDK
> mentioned in the subject?
>
> If you don’t want to go to the trouble, you can certainly keep using WDK
> 7 with “build” and friends.
>
> If you do want to move forward, unless you’re doing something magical in
> your makefiles, it’s way easier to create a dummy empty driver project
> and modify it to add your files. Nmake2msbuild was a nice concept, but
> it had a tendency to create overly complicated project files.
>
> –
> Tim Roberts, xxxxx@probo.com
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
>
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