build Utility

The DDK build command line utility is the primary tool for building drivers. It invokes the nmake make utility to build your driver using the correct compiler and linker settings. If necessary, build can be used to build standard user mode Win32 executables, etc.

The next section describes how to invoke build from within Visual Studio. However, you must still set up build so that it can be run at the command line. As well as your source code, you must specify a SOURCES file, a standard makefile, the directory structure, and optionally a makefile.inc file and a dirs file. All these steps are described in the following text.

build displays progress details and error results to its standard output. In addition, it lists the errors in a file called build.err, the warnings in build.wrn, and a log in build.log. In W2000 there are free and checked build versions of each of these files, i.e., buildfre.log, buildchk.log, etc.