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Compiling Windows on DOS? (Developers)

posted by tom Homepage, Germany (West), 15.02.2021, 11:57

> > Recompiling a single driver should be SLIGHTLY easier than an entire
> multi
> > gigabyte operating system...
>
> That was just one of examples. Even a single driver can have huge depencies
> in sources, I did't try to isolate it.

nope. usually, drivers are exclusively dependent on themselves, plus some well-defined binary interfaces, that are documented in the DDKs.

people (including me) have developed windows drivers for the last 25 years without ever seeing a single line of windows source code.

there is nothing preventing you from enhancing XP by adding your own driver.

and there is even a very good chance that it will work on Windows 10, too (ignoring 32 bit vs. 64).

in this respect Windows is similar to DOS: 25-year-old stuff still works. without ever recompiling anything:-D

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