General Build Considerations for Drivers
Building drivers is substantially different from building applications. No integrated development tools such as Microsoft Visual Studio exist to automatically handle most of the complexity of configuring and running the build process. Instead, you’ll find that driver developers:
Use a text editor to create and edit the project’s files.
A special-purpose code editor is typically used, but any text editor will work.
Use the command-line Build utility—included with the WDK—to build the driver.
This Build utility builds the driver binary and related files by using compilers, linkers, and preprocessors that are also included with the WDK.
In addition to source files, create a make file and several other supporting ...
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