Unfortunately, I have customers wedded to VS2012 (one of them is wedded to
Vista!), so SDV which also seems in some cases to have problems with Win7
WDK and VS2012 Win8 WDK co-residing has been worthless to me for so long, I
will need to do a major refresher to use it. This is ironic as I am a
former developer of static analysis tools, and a strong advocate, but the
SDV team screwed this one up beyond belief.
Don Burn
Windows Driver Consulting
Website: http://www.windrvr.com
-----Original Message-----
From: xxxxx@lists.osr.com
[mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com] On Behalf Of Martin O’Brien
Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2015 2:02 PM
To: Windows System Software Devs Interest List
Subject: RE: [ntdev] SDV encountered errors when building the driver
Yeah, uninstalling VS (or Office, which is even worse) is indeed a dicey
proposition. It does usually works, but if it doesn’t, you’re completely
screwed.
Not that this will help you know, but in general, I have found VS2013 to a
lot less hostile than VS2012.
So, as a hail mary, I know that VS2013 and the Win8 WDK supports this lovely
(documented & legal) feature of a binary/archive dist of the toolchain. I
can’t find the link, but I’ve used it and it is possible to extend it (IMO)
to install other components, at least in some cases. Getting it to install
and use NMake was a bit of hack that I’ve since worked around by using ninja
instead (with CMake, both of which rock, BTW), but in any case, going
forward, if all you need is a WDK build environment and you’re feeling
lucky, you could consider trying the standalone dist (doesn’t use the
registry or common files) and see if you can edit the install xml file to
include it, assuming that SDV has some console list mode still (all
doubtful, alas).
SDV in the VS2013/WIN8 WDK rocks, BTW! Completely useless IMO before that,
so damn fine work improving it, MSFT!
Good luck,
mm
-----Original Message-----
From: xxxxx@lists.osr.com
[mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com] On Behalf Of Don Burn
Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2015 1:33 PM
To: Windows System Software Devs Interest List
Subject: RE: [ntdev] SDV encountered errors when building the driver
It is totally uninstall one of the Visual Studio’s and the WDK, then kiss
your ass and pray. Sometimes the removal works and other times the only
solution is to format the disks on the system and start reloading. Because
of this even though I believe strongly in SDV, I have not used it for quite
some time,
Don Burn
Windows Driver Consulting
Website: http://www.windrvr.com
-----Original Message-----
From: xxxxx@lists.osr.com
[mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com] On Behalf Of xxxxx@osr.com
Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2015 9:03 AM
To: Windows System Software Devs Interest List
Subject: RE:[ntdev] SDV encountered errors when building the driver
I didn’t know that!
Is there a work-around? Or is it a “too bad, so sad” situation?
Peter
OSR
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