Install the WDK using WinGet
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. It requires Visual Studio 2022 and Windows SDK 10.0.26100. 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
Step 3: Install WDK Visual Studio extension
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.
See also
- Use the WinGet tool to install and manage applications
- WinGet Configuration: How to set up a machine using winget and a configuration file
- Use command-line parameters to install, update, and manage Visual Studio
- Windows 11 hardware requirements
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