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Install the WDK using WinGet

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You can use the Windows Package Manager (WinGet) tool to install or update the Windows Driver Kit on your computer, along with its dependencies such as Visual Studio and the Windows Software Development Kit, all from the command line.

Refer to the WinGet install documentation if you need help making sure that you have WinGet installed and configured correctly.

Install the latest WDK step by step using WinGet

The latest version of the WDK is 10.0.26100.1882. It requires Visual Studio 2022 and Windows SDK 10.0.26100.1742 For more info, see Kit versioning.

Step 1: Install Visual Studio 2022

The WDK requires Visual Studio 2022 with the Desktop development with C++ workload installed, along with the VS 2022 C++ build tools and their corresponding VS 2022 C++ Spectre-mitigated libs (Latest) components for each architecture you intend to build drivers for.

You can use WinGet to install Visual Studio 2022 with all the workloads and components required for driver development. To do so, you need a Visual Studio installation configuration file. Create a wdk.vsconfig file with the following contents and take note of its location:

{
  "version": "1.0",
  "components": [
    "Microsoft.Component.MSBuild",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.CoreEditor",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.NuGet",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Roslyn.Compiler",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.TextTemplating",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.ASAN",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.ATL.ARM64.Spectre",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.ATL.ARM64",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.ATL.Spectre",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.ATL",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.ATLMFC.Spectre",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.ATLMFC",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.CoreIde",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.MFC.ARM64.Spectre",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.MFC.ARM64",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.Redist.14.Latest",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.Runtimes.ARM64.Spectre",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.Runtimes.ARM64EC.Spectre",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.Runtimes.x86.x64.Spectre",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.Tools.ARM64",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.Tools.ARM64EC",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.Tools.x86.x64",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Windows10SDK",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.ComponentGroup.NativeDesktop.Core",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.CoreEditor",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.NativeDesktop"
  ]
}

Depending on the edition you would like to install, you will need to provide winget with a different set of installer parameters along with the path to the .vsconfig file you have just created to customize your installation.

Caution

You must provide an absolute path to your wdk.vsconfig file in the following commands. Otherwise, WinGet may fail to install Visual Studio while still reporting success.

Visual Studio Community 2022:

winget install --source winget --exact --id Microsoft.VisualStudio.2022.Community --override "--passive --config <vsconfig-folder>\wdk.vsconfig"

Visual Studio Professional 2022:

winget install --source winget --exact --id Microsoft.VisualStudio.2022.Professional --override "--passive --config <vsconfig-folder>\wdk.vsconfig""

Visual Studio Enterprise 2022:

winget install --source winget --exact --id Microsoft.VisualStudio.2022.Enterprise --override "--passive --config <vsconfig-folder>\wdk.vsconfig"

You can check Visual Studio documentation on How to use WinGet to install or modify Visual Studio for more details.

Step 2: Install Windows SDK and WDK

You can install both the Windows SDK and WDK from WinGet by running the following commands:

Windows SDK:

winget install --source winget --exact --id Microsoft.WindowsSDK.10.0.26100 --log $env:USERPROFILE/Desktop/sdk-install.log

Windows WDK:

winget install --source winget --exact --id Microsoft.WindowsWDK.10.0.26100 --log $env:USERPROFILE/Desktop/wdk-install.log

If you are using VS 17.11.0 or later, uncheck the install extension checkbox.

Step 3: Install WDK Visual Studio extension

Note

This section is only application when using VS earlier than 17.11.0 release

After installing the WDK from command line, you will need to install the Windows Driver Kit Visual Studio extension separately to be able to build and test drivers. By default, the extension is located under %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Windows Kits\10\Vsix\VS2022\10.0.26100.0\%PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE%\WDK.vsix.

Using Command Prompt:

for /f "usebackq tokens=*" %i in (`"%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\vswhere.exe" -nologo -latest -products * -property enginePath`) do (
  "%i\VSIXInstaller.exe" "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Windows Kits\10\Vsix\VS2022\10.0.26100.0\%PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE%\WDK.vsix"
)

Using PowerShell:

& $(& "${env:ProgramFiles(x86)}\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\vswhere.exe" -nologo -latest -products * -property enginePath | Join-Path -ChildPath 'VSIXInstaller.exe') "${env:ProgramFiles(x86)}\Windows Kits\10\Vsix\VS2022\10.0.26100.0\${env:PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE}\WDK.vsix"

Install other WDK versions using WinGet

You can install multiple kits for different Windows versions from WinGet.

Note

For versions 22000 (targeting Windows 11, version 21H2) and older, you need to install an older version of Visual Studio. See Other WDK downloads > Step 1: Install Visual Studio to find the required Visual Studio version for the WDK version you would like to install.

You can search for other available kit versions using the winget search command.

Windows SDK:

winget search --source winget --id Microsoft.WindowsSDK

Windows WDK:

winget search --source winget --id Microsoft.WindowsWDK

Each command will return a table with all the available SDK/WDK versions in WinGet. For example, when looking for all the available WDK versions, a table like this will be shown:

Name                                        Id                              Version        Source
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Windows Driver Kit - Windows 10.0.22621.2428 Microsoft.WindowsWDK.10.0.22621 10.1.22621.2428 winget
Windows Driver Kit - Windows 10.1.22000.1    Microsoft.WindowsWDK.10.0.22000 10.1.22000.1    winget
Windows Driver Kit                           Microsoft.WindowsWDK.10.0.19041 10.1.19041.685  winget
Windows Driver Kit - Windows 10.0.26100.1    Microsoft.WindowsWDK.10.0.26100 10.1.26100.1    winget

You can then install your required combination of kits for a specific <kit-version> using winget install:

Windows SDK:

winget install --source winget --exact --id Microsoft.WindowsSDK.10.0.<kit-version>

Windows WDK:

winget install --source winget --exact --id Microsoft.WindowsWDK.10.0.<kit-version>

Note

If the Windows Driver Kit version you are looking for is not available in WinGet, you will need to download and install it separately from Other WDK downloads.

Unless you have the WDK Visual Studio extension from a newer WDK installed already, you will need to install it manually. It's located by default under %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Windows Kits\10\Vsix\<vs-version>\10.0.<kit-version>.0\WDK.vsix for kit versions 22621 and newer, or %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Windows Kits\10\Vsix\<vs-version>\WDK.vsix for kit versions 22000 and older.

Locate first the folder for the <vs-version> that you will be using (VS2022 for versions 22621 and newer, VS2019 for versions 18362 thru 22000). If that folder contains multiple versioned folders, locate the folder inside with the latest version number. Take note of this location as <wdk-vsix-folder> if you want to install the extension from command line.

Using Command Prompt:

for /f "usebackq tokens=*" %i in (`"%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\vswhere.exe" -nologo -latest -products * -property enginePath`) do (
  "%i\VSIXInstaller.exe" "<wdk-vsix-folder>\WDK.vsix"
)

Using PowerShell:

& $(& "${env:ProgramFiles(x86)}\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\vswhere.exe" -nologo -latest -products * -property enginePath | Join-Path -ChildPath 'VSIXInstaller.exe') "<wdk-vsix-folder>\WDK.vsix"

Install a full driver development environment using a WinGet configuration file

By using a WinGet Configuration file, you can set up a new machine for driver development with minimal manual intervention.

A configuration file for installing the Windows 11, version 24H2 WDK and its dependencies is provided for your convenience. This configuration will set up the following components:

  • Visual Studio 2022 Community.
  • Visual Studio required workflows and components for driver development.
  • Windows 11, version 24H2 SDK.
  • Windows 11, version 24H2 WDK.
  • WDK Visual Studio Extension.

Although using a configuration description file works better for provisioning a new machine, you can use it even if you have some of the components installed already and WinGet will attempt to only install the missing components.

Tip

You can directly download and install the WDK configuration file using PowerShell. After installing the latest version of WinGet, you can run the following commands:

# Open a new PowerShell terminal if needed
powershell

# Download configuration file to install WDK with VS 2022 Community
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/Windows-driver-samples/main/configuration.dsc.yaml' -OutFile configuration.dsc.yaml

# Install VS, SDK, WDK and WDK VS extension using the configuration file
winget configure -f configuration.dsc.yaml

Step 1: Set up WinGet

Make sure that you have WinGet version 1.6 or higher installed on the machine you would like to provision. You can do so by running winget --version on your terminal and checking that the output version number is v1.6.2631 or greater. If not, or if the terminal throws an error telling that the command does not exist, you will need to install the latest version of WinGet before proceeding.

Step 2: Download the WDK Configuration file

The configuration description file can be downloaded from here. Save this file as configuration.dsc.yml and take note of its location.

Tip

The provided configuration file will install the Community edition of Visual Studio 2022. If you need a different edition, you can edit Microsoft.VisualStudio.2022.Community and Microsoft.VisualStudio.Product.Community product IDs with different IDs for the edition you would like to install (for Professional: Microsoft.VisualStudio.2022.Professional and Microsoft.VisualStudio.Product.Professional; for Enterprise: Microsoft.VisualStudio.2022.Enterprise and Microsoft.VisualStudio.Product.Enterprise).

Step 3A: Run WinGet configure to install WDK Configuration file

On a command line under the directory where the WDK configuration file was saved, run the following command to configure your machine using that file:

winget configure -f configuration.dsc.yaml

Step 3B: Use Dev Home to install WDK Configuration file

Alternatively, if you have Dev Home installed, you can use it to configure your machine. Select "Machine configuration" from the sidebar, then "Set up development environment" > "Configuration file" on the main screen to open the WDK configuration file that you have downloaded. After confirming that you would like to use that file to configure your machine, installation will proceed and, after it completes, you should have an environment ready for driver development.

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