I need to add a device driver to a Windows CE image, I have the driver in .dll and .reg files and in a .cab package. I'm using Visual Studio 2005 with Platform Builder for Windows CE 6.0.
How can I do that?
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Hi, If you an OSDesign and you want to add the Dll to the image that the OSDesign creates, just put the Dll file in the %WinceRootDir%\Platform\\Files directory. If you do this, the file will be copied automatically to the release directory when you do a build. As for the registry, just add the relevant changes to the Porject.reg file and it will be integrated into the whole build. When you add a stream interface driver you need to add it's registry settings undet [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\BuiltIn\Drivers\]. You can read here (An excellent Blog- http://geekswithblogs.net/BruceEitman/archive/2008/12/08/windows-ce-stream-interface-driver-registry-settings.aspx) (I can't post another link so search msdn for the bus enumerator) the necessary registry settings for a stream interface driver.
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Hope this helps,
Shai
Shaihi
2009-08-20 07:38:52
Thank you. Do you know if it's possible to do this as an independent Catalog Item instead of using global locations?
Jaime Soriano
2009-08-20 14:19:23
Read this entry in the same blog http://geekswithblogs.net/BruceEitman/archive/2008/06/20/platform-builder-6.0-creating-a-catalog-file.aspx. What are you aiming at exactly?
Shaihi
2009-08-20 15:15:04
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"Hi, If you an OSDesign and you want to add the Dll to the image that the OSDesign creates, just put the Dll file in the %WinceRootDir%\Platform\Files directory. If you do this, the file will be copied automatically to the release directory when you do a build. As for the registry, just add the relevant changes to the Porject.reg file and it will be integrated into the whole build. When you add a stream interface driver you need to add it's registry settings undet [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\BuiltIn\Drivers]. You can read here (An excellent Blog- http://geekswithblogs.net/BruceEitman/archive/2008/12/08/windows-ce-stream-interface-driver-registry-settings.aspx) (I can't post another link so search msdn for the bus enumerator) the necessary registry settings for a stream interface driver."
Hi, for your "Porject.reg file" from the above quote, do you mean "platform.reg"?
WCW
2010-05-05 02:03:54
You should start your own question next time. The `project.reg` file is OSDesign specific whereas the `platform.reg` file is platform(BSP) specific. You could add the changes in either of the files, but if you add them to the `platform.reg` then other people using the same BSP will be affected too.
Shaihi
2010-05-05 05:51:30