wgwjifeng / xdk

XDK is a fully featured C++ wrapper library for Windows kernel development

XDK

XDK is a fully featured C++ wrapper library that uses xStl as a base library. XDK includes the following features:

• Easy driver development.
• Full C++ features, including exception handling.
• Synchronization objects, threads and file access APIs.

For more information about using C++ in kernel, please see this article.

Requirements

The compiled binaries can be operated on Windows NT operating system or higher. Need Visual Studio Express 2010 or higher, or Visual Studio 2010 or higher. Need Windows Driver Kit (DDK) Version 7.1.0.

Setting Up Environment

Git

git clone https://github.com/eladraz/xStl
git clone https://github.com/eladraz/XDK

Compilation tools

• Install Visual Studio Express 2010 or higher, or Visual Studio 2010 or higher.
• Install Windows Driver Kit (DDK) Version 7.1.0

Windows

In order to pass variable arguments to Visual Studio, you need to declare the following system arguments:

• XSTL_PATH (for example: C:\WORK\github\xStl)
• XDK_PATH (for example: C:\WORK\github\XDK)
• DDK_PATH (for example: C:\WinDDK\7600.16385.1)

To add system variables you should:

• Right-click My Computer, and then click Properties.
• Click the Advanced tab.
• Click Environment variables.
• Click New to add a new variable name (e.g. XDK_PATH) and its location (e.g. C:\WORK\github\XDK).

How to Build

In order to build the XDK library, open XDK.sln solution project with Visual Studio. In Visual Studio's configuration manager, choose the desired build configuration. Choosing Release|Win32 or Debug|Win32 builds the user-mode components. Choosing 'Kernel Release|Win32orDebug Release|Win32` builds the kernel-mode components.

NOTE: I have decided not to upload the x64 version of XDK

How to Run

The XDK solution comes with the following projects:

• xStl - xStl is a cross-compile, cross-platform C++ library that works in both user mode and kernel mode.

• xdk_loader - A user-mode library that implements driver-loading APIs.

• Manager - A generic driver-loading application that uses xdk_loader (e.g. CLI front-end for driver loading).

• PCPlayer - A dedicated user-mode application that loads PCSpeakerDriver from hardcoded location (C:\Temp\PCSpeakerDriver.sys), which demonstrates user mode => kernel mode commands and events. The application sends a few commands to the driver to turn on the PC speaker.

• XDK - A fully featured C++ kernel mode library (including synchronization objects, threads and file access file-access APIs).

• PCSpeakerDriver - A sample driver for PC Speaker.

License

Please see LICENSE file