Microsoft KB Archive/65929

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 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:) 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:

.......INC

However, this line should read as follows:

...INC

Additional reference words: 3.00 docerr DDKMISC