INF: Header File Installation Instructions Incorrect for 3.0

ID Number: Q65929

3.00

WINDOWS

docerr

Summary:

The "Microsoft Windows Device Development Kit Installation and Update

Guide" for version 3.0 is in error regarding the installation of

header files. In Section 3.6 on page 3-3, the following sentence

incorrectly instructs the user to copy Microsoft Windows Device

Development Kit (DDK) header files into a Microsoft Windows Software

Development Kit (SDK) directory:

You should add the appropriate Windows INCLUDE and header files to

the Windows 3.0 \INCLUDE directory that you created during the SDK

Install procedure.

The correct procedure is to update the MS-DOS INCLUDE environment

variable, and not to physically copy any files.

In general, it is necessary to update the LIB and INCLUDE environment

variables during the SDK installation to refer to the SDK INCLUDE

directory (by default, C:\WINDEV\INCLUDE) before any other

directories. Then, during the DDK installation, update these

environment variables to refer to the DDK directories before the SDK

directories.

The virtual device INCLUDE directory need not be placed in the INCLUDE

environment variable because the corresponding MAKE files refer to the

directory explicitly. This is stated in Section 3.7 of Installation

and Update Guide (on page 3-4). However, the example included is also

in error. The MAKE file line shown is as follows:

..\..\..\INCLUDE\SAMPLE.INC

However, this line should read as follows:

..\INCLUDE\SAMPLE.INC

Additional reference words: 3.00 docerr DDKMISC