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Setting up eclipse for windows driver development

I am trying to write a user-mode windows(XP, Vista & 7) virtual printer driver using WDK 7.1.0 . I plan to use eclipse IDE for development, so wanted to know if I can set it up for the same. I am looking to do following:-

1) Eclipse to recognize win32 apis (C and C++) and hence provide features like autocompletion for its function names

2) Eclipse to use compiler provided with WDK

3) Debug the code through eclipse (Not sure if this is possible or not)

OR would you suggest some other development environment for windows driver development ?

Solution

  • Definitely you should use MS Visual Studio with VisualDDK addon.

    It allows you to compile/debug even kernel mode drivers local or remotely.