Building Arm64 Drivers with the WDK
Windows 10 can run on machines that are powered by Arm64 processors. However, because Windows 10 on Arm does not support emulation of x86 kernel-mode or UMDF drivers, you must recompile these drivers to Arm64 using the instructions below.
Setup
Download Visual Studio 2017 or 2019. You'll need at minimum version 15.9.
On the Windows start menu, type Visual Studio Installer. Then on the Workloads tab, select Desktop development with C++.
On the Individual Components tab, select the following options:
- MSVC v142 - VS 2019 C++ ARM build tools (latest)
- MSVC v142 - VS 2019 C++ ARM64 build tools (latest)
- C++ ATL for latest v142 build tools (ARM)
- C++ ATL for latest v142 build tools (ARM64)
- C++ MFC for latest v142 build tools (ARM)
- C++ MFC for latest v142 build tools (ARM64)
Install and restart Visual Studio.
Download the Windows SDK. Ensure that you have SDK version 16299 (Windows 10, version 1709) or later.
Download the WDK. Ensure that you have WDK version 16299 or later.
Building an Arm64 Driver with the WDK
In Visual Studio, open a driver solution. You can use your own, or one from the Windows-driver-samples repo.
Select Solutions platform and select Configuration Manager.
Under Active Solution Platform, select New.
From Type or Select new Platform, select Arm64. Copy settings from Win32. Select OK and Close.
Select Arm64 as the target platform and rebuild.
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