Visual Studio 5.0 compatibility

Hi,

I need Visual Studio 5.0 to build my driver code.

Am not able to get it

I have 6.0 version.

Can anyone tell me how to make 6.0 to be compatible for 5.0?

What settings has to be changed?

Thanks & Regards
Gayathri

Calvin
Thu Jun 30 01:18:49 CDT 2005

Why don't you use the w2k3sp1 ddk?

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"gaya" <gaya_2003@rediffmail.com> wrote in message
news:1120112007.458686.8290@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
> Hi,
>
> I need Visual Studio 5.0 to build my driver code.
>
> Am not able to get it
>
> I have 6.0 version.
>
> Can anyone tell me how to make 6.0 to be compatible for 5.0?
>
> What settings has to be changed?
>
> Thanks & Regards
> Gayathri
>

Don
Thu Jun 30 06:16:01 CDT 2005

I assime from this you are developing an NT4.0 driver. If so, you can move
to Visual Studio 6.0. If you are developing for Windows 2000, Windows XP,
or Windows Server 2003 you should be using the latest DDK, Windows Server
2003 SP1 DDK which has the compiler as part of the package.


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"gaya" <gaya_2003@rediffmail.com> wrote in message
news:1120112007.458686.8290@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
> Hi,
>
> I need Visual Studio 5.0 to build my driver code.
>
> Am not able to get it
>
> I have 6.0 version.
>
> Can anyone tell me how to make 6.0 to be compatible for 5.0?
>
> What settings has to be changed?
>
> Thanks & Regards
> Gayathri
>

gaya
Thu Jun 30 06:33:15 CDT 2005

Hi,

Am working with Win98 operating system

Building needs Visual studio/VC++ 5.0

How to make 6.0 version compatible for that

Thanks and Regards
Gayathri

Ray
Thu Jun 30 11:20:20 CDT 2005

Is this a VxD or a WDM style driver?

In either case, I would be very surprised if you were unable to use the
6.0 compiler unless you're using an old version of some driver package
like VToolsD.

We build our Win98/Me WDM drivers using VC++ 6 all the time, for
example. What is it that makes you think you can only build with VC++
5.0? I.e. what error messages are you getting, etc.?

Anyway, Visual Studio 5 was a very short lived, and frankly not very
stable, version of the compiler. Probably all you're doing to find lying
around is the 4.2 version (needed for some old Win95 drivers and certain
kinds of VxD) and the 6.0 version. Those are both in MSDN (as is VC++
1.52 if you *really* need to compile a 16 bit binary for some obscure
reason :-).

gaya wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am working with Win98 operating system
>
> Building needs Visual studio/VC++ 5.0
>
> How to make 6.0 version compatible for that
>
> Thanks and Regards
> Gayathri
>


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