NT/2K Native Executables

[Wayne Diamond]

There is a hello world Native example with C++ source and compiled executable in the zip at http://www.sysinternals.com/native.htm
There also info on the Native APIs at http://www.sysinternals.com/ntdll.htm

It prints "Hello world" on the blue Windows NT load screen before Windows NT actually starts...
any of you C++ gurus know if this is PB'able?


[This message has been edited by Wayne Diamond (edited October 25, 2000).]

[Tom Hanlin]

Unlikely, at best.

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Tom Hanlin
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[Cecil Williams]

Wayne,

I'll have to agree with Tom's assessment. The following is a
quote from the url that you provided:

The Build utility uses a standard makefile to guide it,
\ddk\inc\makefile.def, which looks for a run-time library named
nt.lib when compiling native applications. Unfortunately,
Microsoft doesn't ship this file with the DDK. However,
you can work around this problem by including a line
in makefile.def that overrides the selection of nt.lib by
specifying Visual C++'s runtime library, msvcrt.lib.

PB doesn't do static libraries. From what the native DDK describes,
you are "in the cold" as far as docs for this type of coding.

The code in native.c is just straight forward "C".

Cheers,
Cecil

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[Wayne Diamond]

aww ok
anyway, kind thanks for taking the time to look at it for me


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