Re: VXDs for WFWG
Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Can Watcom C/C++ build VXDs for WFWG 3.11?
Yes. People have done that very thing.
What else would I need?
There are VXDs in OpenWatcom that are built using nothing but
OpenWatcom itself. But the build mechanism — from a quick glance
through it — only provides enough libraries, include files, headers,
and whatnot to support building those specific VxDs.
For general-purpose VxD development, without the extra effort of having to create your own libraries and headers from scratch, you'll therefore need the DOS-Windows 3.x/9x/ME DDK. It's not free software, and so of course doesn't come with free softwares such as OpenWatcom. Microsoft itself won't give it to you any more. And it has been so long that most of the people who were passing it around under the table don't do so any more.
Mr Sensible
Only just found this in my list of things to reply to!
> > Can Watcom C/C++ build VXDs for WFWG 3.11?
> Yes. People have done that very thing.
> > What else would I need?
> There are VXDs in OpenWatcom that are built using nothing but
> OpenWatcom itself. But the build mechanism — from a quick glance
> through it — only provides enough libraries, include files, headers,
> and whatnot to support building those specific VxDs.
Good, that's all I needed to know.
> For general-purpose VxD development, without the extra effort of
> having to create your own libraries and headers from scratch, you'll
> therefore need the DOS-Windows 3.x/9x/ME DDK. It's not free software,
> and so of course doesn't come with free softwares such as OpenWatcom.
> Microsoft itself won't give it to you any more. And it has been so
> long that most of the people who were passing it around under the
> table don't do so any more.
That isn't a problem, thanks. One of the things I'm interested in is
writing graphic drivers for WFWG 3.x installations on more modern PCs.
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Ross Ridge
>That isn't a problem, thanks. One of the things I'm interested in is
>writing graphic drivers for WFWG 3.x installations on more modern PCs.
Windows 3.x graphic drivers are 16-bit user-mode DLLs. You don't
normally need to write a VxD for them. However, wou'll almost certainly
need to somehow aquire a legitmate copy of the Windows DDK from the era
to make one. Windows 3.x graphics drivers implemented almost all GDI
functionality themselves. Because of that most, if not all, graphics
drivers were based off the reference driver source included in the DDK
Ross Ridge
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