Windows 3.11 device driver development

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Hello All,

I need to write a Windows 3.11 device driver.Does Microsoft have a Device
Driver Kit (DDK)for Windows 3.11.Also some documentation which can help me
get started on it would be useful.

Thanks in advance,
Sachin Anvekar

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IIRC, yes, there was a DDK for Windows 3.11. However, the DDK for
Windows 3.11 is not even mentioned on the MS DDK site:

http://www.microsoft.com/ddk/

Hmm, maybe it’s on one of the MSDN Archive CDs…?

Stephan

On Wed, 6 Mar 2002 17:25:29 +0530, “Sachin”
wrote:

>
>Hello All,
>
>I need to write a Windows 3.11 device driver.Does Microsoft have a Device
>Driver Kit (DDK)for Windows 3.11.Also some documentation which can help me
>get started on it would be useful.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Sachin Anvekar

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Sachin,

Take a look at the Microsoft MSDN Subscription (January 2000) “16-bit
Platform Archive” package CD #3, “16-bit DDKs”. It contains both the
DDK and the 16-bit Visual C version 1.52c compiler you will need. CD #1
contains Windows 3.1, Windows 3.11 and WfW 3.11. The Platform Archive
came in a small (half-height) light-blue binder with about 15 CDs.

Depending on what you’re trying to write, there may be alternatives to
using the DDK.

There were a number of good books at the time. The one that I have at
my fingertips right now is “Writing Windows Virtual Device Drivers” by
David Thielen, Addison-Wesley ISBN 0-201-62706-X (1994). There are many
others; I’d be happy to cite one or two more off-line. To guide you to
a particular book, it would be helpful to know what you’re trying to
accomplish (plus, I’m just curious).

Good luck…

Bryan S. Burgin
xxxxx@microsoft.com

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Hello All,

I need to write a Windows 3.11 device driver.Does Microsoft have a
Device
Driver Kit (DDK)for Windows 3.11.Also some documentation which can help
me
get started on it would be useful.

Thanks in advance,
Sachin Anvekar

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MSDN can provide a Platform Archive set of CDs (at leat they used to). My
set from 1998 has the 16 bit DDKs. If you do get a hold of it somehow you
may be in for a bit of a shock. The 16 bit DDKs were sparsely documented and
all the sample drivers are in x86 assembly. Also you will need to round up
the older 16 bit versions of MASM and LINK if you are compiling any of the
16 bit drivers. Depending on what device you need to support, you may have
some work cut out for you.

Jim

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I need to write a Windows 3.11 device driver.Does Microsoft have a Device
Driver Kit (DDK)for Windows 3.11.Also some documentation which can help me
get started on it would be useful.

Thanks in advance,
Sachin Anvekar

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