NT DDK on Win9x

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1

i remember this has been talked before, but now i need to know what one
needs to do to install NT DDK4 on win95/win98.

thanks,

—javed

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2

As you ask the question, just insert the CD and install. The CD does not
care if it is installing on 9x or NT. I have a DDK directory on my 98
machine with 98ddk, nt4ddk, and nt5ddk subdirectories.

Now, if you want to build NT drivers on you 98 machine, that is a different
story. There is no direct way to do it. You have to create a batch file
that sets up the environment correctly before calling build. Once you have
everything set up properly build should have no idea it is not running on
NT.

-Evan Hillman

i remember this has been talked before, but now i need to know what one
needs to do to install NT DDK4 on win95/win98.

thanks,

—javed

3

hi evan ,
As javed asked about installing Nt DDK on 9x machines .I tried what you said but
at the end of installation i got a message that the DDK was not successfully installed.
Does it require the NT SDK to be installed before DDK.Or do i have to exclude some components
during installation.

Ajitabh

Ajitabh Prakash
Sr.Software Engineer
Future Software
480/481 Nandnam,Chennai

-----Original Message-----
From: Evan Hillman [SMTP:xxxxx@pcu.net]
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 8:32 PM
To: NT Developers Interest List
Subject: [ntdev] RE: NT DDK on Win9x

As you ask the question, just insert the CD and install. The CD does not
care if it is installing on 9x or NT. I have a DDK directory on my 98
machine with 98ddk, nt4ddk, and nt5ddk subdirectories.

Now, if you want to build NT drivers on you 98 machine, that is a different
story. There is no direct way to do it. You have to create a batch file
that sets up the environment correctly before calling build. Once you have
everything set up properly build should have no idea it is not running on
NT.

-Evan Hillman

i remember this has been talked before, but now i need to know what one
needs to do to install NT DDK4 on win95/win98.

thanks,

—javed

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4

The NT4 DDK is not officially supported on win98. The error message is
accurate, there were problems in the install. As the earlier poster
mentioned, all the samples and tools have been installed. The documentation
system is functional. It is even possible to get the build tools working,
you will have to fiddle with the startup shell scripts. But this is NOT a
supported configuration for building NT drivers. You need an NT4 machine to
build drivers correctly.

The W2K ddk appears to install without problems on win98_SE.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ajitabh Prakash [mailto:xxxxx@future.futsoft.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 3:01 AM
To: NT Developers Interest List
Subject: [ntdev] RE: NT DDK on Win9x

hi evan ,
As javed asked about installing Nt DDK on 9x machines .I tried what
you said but
at the end of installation i got a message that the DDK was not
successfully installed.
Does it require the NT SDK to be installed before DDK.Or do i have
to exclude some components
during installation.

Ajitabh

Ajitabh Prakash
Sr.Software Engineer
Future Software
480/481 Nandnam,Chennai

-----Original Message-----
From: Evan Hillman [SMTP:xxxxx@pcu.net]
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 8:32 PM
To: NT Developers Interest List
Subject: [ntdev] RE: NT DDK on Win9x

As you ask the question, just insert the CD and install. The CD does not
care if it is installing on 9x or NT. I have a DDK directory on my 98
machine with 98ddk, nt4ddk, and nt5ddk subdirectories.

Now, if you want to build NT drivers on you 98 machine, that is a different
story. There is no direct way to do it. You have to create a batch file
that sets up the environment correctly before calling build. Once you have
everything set up properly build should have no idea it is not running on
NT.

-Evan Hillman

i remember this has been talked before, but now i need to know what one
needs to do to install NT DDK4 on win95/win98.

thanks,

—javed

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5

Ajitabh,

I don’t remember the error when installing, but it has been a while. It
probably an error as the install script attempted to install the “checked”
and “free” build environments, in which case I would not have paid attention
to it since that was an expected thing.

Mark is of course correct about the configuration not being supported. The
drivers I have build this way have worked as well as when I built them under
NT4, but even then I would only build release code under NT4. I chose to
investigate this route since my primary dev system is Win98 with a large
hard drive, and setting up for dual boot with nt4 is painful. Prior to this
I used the Win2000 beta to build my NT drivers. This worked fine.

-Evan

-----Original Message-----
From: xxxxx@lists.osr.com
[mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com]On Behalf Of Roddy, Mark
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 6:52 AM
To: NT Developers Interest List
Subject: [ntdev] RE: NT DDK on Win9x

The NT4 DDK is not officially supported on win98. The error message is
accurate, there were problems in the install. As the earlier poster
mentioned, all the samples and tools have been installed. The
documentation
system is functional. It is even possible to get the build tools working,
you will have to fiddle with the startup shell scripts. But this is NOT a
supported configuration for building NT drivers. You need an NT4
machine to
build drivers correctly.

The W2K ddk appears to install without problems on win98_SE.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ajitabh Prakash [mailto:xxxxx@future.futsoft.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 3:01 AM
To: NT Developers Interest List
Subject: [ntdev] RE: NT DDK on Win9x

hi evan ,
As javed asked about installing Nt DDK on 9x machines .I tried what
you said but
at the end of installation i got a message that the DDK was not
successfully installed.
Does it require the NT SDK to be installed before DDK.Or do i have
to exclude some components
during installation.

Ajitabh

Ajitabh Prakash
Sr.Software Engineer
Future Software
480/481 Nandnam,Chennai

-----Original Message-----
From: Evan Hillman [SMTP:xxxxx@pcu.net]
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 8:32 PM
To: NT Developers Interest List
Subject: [ntdev] RE: NT DDK on Win9x

As you ask the question, just insert the CD and install. The CD does not
care if it is installing on 9x or NT. I have a DDK directory on my 98
machine with 98ddk, nt4ddk, and nt5ddk subdirectories.

Now, if you want to build NT drivers on you 98 machine, that is a
different
story. There is no direct way to do it. You have to create a batch file
that sets up the environment correctly before calling build.
Once you have
everything set up properly build should have no idea it is not running on
NT.

-Evan Hillman

>
> i remember this has been talked before, but now i need to know what one
> needs to do to install NT DDK4 on win95/win98.
>
> thanks,
>
> —javed
>

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