I'm trying to add a device driver to a Windows CE 6.0 image that I'm creating through Platform Builder.
The driver in question, for the VIA 6656 chipset (used in many USB Wi-Fi adapters/dongles), is available in the manufacturer's website and consists of several files: .PDB, .REG, .BIB, .DLL, .MAP and .REL.
I understand that the REG file must be imported in my OSDesign.reg, the BIB file to my OSDesign.bib and the DLL must be placed in the /Windows folder of my image. What I don't understand is what to do with the remaining files (PDB, MAP and REL).
Could anyone assist me in this matter?
Thank you in advance!
For inclusion into the OS, you need only the REG, BIB and DLL. The remaining files contain debugging symbols, linker information and the like, presumably in case you have an error and want to debug it. It's odd that you get these, but no source code. sStill, for including in your OS for use, they're not relevant.
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Currently I study the Microsoft Documentation about drivers.
The are plenty of examples in the documentaion but there is something that is not very clear. When you develope a driver for a piece of hardware you must set an entry point and and a callback for when the device is pluged in, but you dont have to specify an identifier for your device.
How does Windows know that this specific driver is for my hardware?
Does the INF files that are generated with the .sys file contain that information?
I want to install windows CE on one of my HDD . I tried a lot to find image of this OS, but did not get even single bootable image file over internet.
Does any one know the image link or How to install Windows CE(latest) from scrach?
Below are the few searched links :
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms905319.aspx\
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mikehall/archive/2009/06/10/steps-needed-to-install-windows-embedded-ce-6-0-from-scratch.aspx
Even after going through these links also, unable to find the answer of my query.
Please help?
Windows CE OS for your device is highly dependent on the processor and the peripherals that your device has.
So, if you are not a platform (OS) developer, you should contact your OEM for the OS images.
If you are OS developer (I mean, you are OEM), then only you can refer above links. They are meant for WinCE platform developers.
Here is a list of BSP (They may also provide you binaries for evaluation) and OEM.
What extensions could correspond to Windows Device Driver source files?
Is *.inf, *cat or *.sys it?
I am trying to search for the source code of a driver in a heap of legacy code, I see files with above mentioned extensions.
If it is legacy driver and built using command prompt (not newer visual studio), then you better of looking for file named SOURCES. It is similar to makefiles and will list driver file name (somedriver.sys) as well as list of source files -.c- for that driver.
*.sys is the actual driver. inf and cat are for installation parameters.
Your device driver source code files will most likely have .c and .h extensions, they will be written in the C programming language and when compiled will form the executable driver (with the .sys extension).
The .inf files are like a script used by Windows to install the device driver into the operating system, they identify the executable file name (your .sys files) and how the driver is installed etc.
The .cat files are used to store certificates and the driver signing signatures of the compiled driver, they are used by Windows during installation of the driver to make sure there's nothing malicious going on.
The .inf .cat and .sys files form the Windows driver package needed by the end user, they don't contain the actual source code of the executable driver.
In Short: I need to detect hotplug events of my USB CDC device by PID/VID and get the corresponding virtual COM port which was created by Windows in Visual C++ and in the end create a dll.
I have a USB CDC device which I need to be notified of when connected/disconnected on Windows. My approach is to use RegisterDeviceNotification and an "invisible" Window to receive WM_DEVICECHANGE notifications. This part is working so far.
Now as far as I found out I need to get the list of USB devices that is plugged, iterate over it and filter out the devices with my PID/VID? I assume that I am then able to get more informations about the device including the COM port?
Is the only way to achieve my goal to use SetupDi calls in setupapi.h? Is using WDK / DDK the only way to achieve my goal?
As soon as that is working I open-source it on http://github.com/vinzenzweber/USBEventHandler. The Mac version is available already!
After digging through tons of useless documentation at msdn and some debugging I found the missing link: SetupDi calls in setupapi.h: More infos as well as source code for Mac and Windows can be found in my USBEventHandler project at github.com with sources for Mac and Windows.
I'm trying to create a test module for one of our USB devices and I'm using Windows XP with the Windows 2003 DDK. When I include the I'm getting a warning that it is obsolete, but without getting any hints as to what replaced it. I see that some definitions were migrated to , but the structure definitions for IOCTLs (like USB_NODE_CONNECTION_INFORMATION) do not exist anywhere. Even the MSDN help page for the structure still reference the obsolete header, without any notice that is obsolete or any pointer to the new API.
What is the forward-looking and supported way of enumerating and accessing USB devices at a low level using Windows?
The library usbioctl.h is available in Windows Driver Kit (WDK). To download it try this link: http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/DevTools/WDK/WDKpkg.mspx. The library itself is located in (WINDDKInstallDir)\inc\api folder.