writing a device driver for pocket pc 2003

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Hello,

I can’t find any info describing how to write a
device driver for a pocket pc 2003. Can any one point
at info?

Regards, Vasili

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On Jan 8, 2005, at 12:48 PM, Galchin Vasili wrote:

I can’t find any info describing how to write a
device driver for a pocket pc 2003. Can any one point
at info?

I don’t do a lot of this sort of thing, but. . .

Look for Platform Builder for Windows CE 4.2. You have to buy it, but
there is a 120-day eval here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c60f61c1-623b
-481b-83b8-031129cf1594&DisplayLang=en

HTH.

-sd

Steve Dispensa
MVP - Windows DDK
www.kernelmustard.com

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Yes get the Platform builder. Also a good book by D. Bolling, discusses
Driver Drivers amongst other things… Note that drivers in the Pocket PC
world are Dlls. Note the the Platform builder has sample drivers. Note
that to debug drivers I would build an image of the Pocket PC Os and run
this on a second computer. Interesting stuff.

Sincerely;
William Michael Jones

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>
> I can’t find any info describing how to write a
> device driver for a pocket pc 2003. Can any one point
> at info?
>
> Regards, Vasili
>
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> that to debug drivers I would build an image of the Pocket PC Os and run

You cannot build an image of Pocket PC OS. You can only build some PPC-styled
“generic PDA” platform with PB and debug on it. This has its own drawbacks like
the lack of Wi-Fi hardware. It is not exactly Pocket PC. For instance, its
networking UI is absolutely other.

And, if you will need to debug the driver on real Pocket PC hardware, debugging
log file is your only chance. Good that fopen() can be called from drivers on
Pocket PC.

Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
StorageCraft Corporation
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