building Windows kernel-mode drivers in D

2015-09-25 Thread Cauterite via Digitalmars-d
The prospect of writing kernel-mode drivers in D doesn't seem to get mentioned very often. I know there's been some attempts in the past at running D in the kernel, such as XOmB, but no mention of doing so on Windows. I gave it a shot, and it seems to be perfectly feasible, so I thought I shoul

Re: building Windows kernel-mode drivers in D

2015-09-25 Thread Dominikus Dittes Scherkl via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 15:17:02 UTC, Cauterite wrote: [...] mydriver.d : pragma(startaddress, DriverEntry); extern(Windows) int DriverEntry(void*, void*) {return 0;}; build.cmd : dmd -L/exetype:nt -L/subsystem:native -ofmydriver.sys mydriver.d checksum.exe mydriver.sys

Re: building Windows kernel-mode drivers in D

2015-09-25 Thread anon via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 15:17:02 UTC, Cauterite wrote: The prospect of writing kernel-mode drivers in D doesn't seem to get mentioned very often. I know there's been some attempts in the past at running D in the kernel, such as XOmB, but no mention of doing so on Windows. I gave it a sh