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Windows 11 WDK runtime requirements
Download and install the Windows 11 WDK
Enterprise WDK (EWDK)
Driver samples for Windows
Related downloads
The WDK is used to develop, test, and deploy drivers for Windows.
* Learn what's new in driver development
* Review known issues
Join the Windows Insider Program to get WDK Insider Preview builds. For installation
instructions for the Windows Insider Preview builds, see Installing preview versions of the
Windows Driver Kit (WDK).
Windows 11 WDK runtime requirements
You can run the Windows 11 WDK on Windows 7 and later, and use it to develop drivers
for these operating systems:
Client oS Server OS.
Windows 11 Windows Server 2022
Windows 10 Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2016
Windows 8.1 Windows Server 2012 R2
Windows 8 Windows Server 2012
Windows 7 Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
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Download and install the Windows 11 WDK
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Step 1: Install
The WOK requires Visual Studio. For more information about system requirements for
Visual Studio, see Visual Studio 2019 System Requirements
ual Studio 2019
The following editions of Visual Studio 2019 support driver development for this release:
* Download Visual Studio Community 2019
* Download Visual Studio Professional 2019
* Download Visual Studio Enterprise 2019
When you install Visual Studio 2019, select the Desktop development with C++ workload.
The Windows 10 Software Development Kit (SDK) is automatically included and is
displayed in the right-hand Summary pane. Note that the version of the SDK that is
compatible with the Windows 11 WDK may not be the default installed with Visual Studio.
To get the compatible version of the SDK please use the link in step 2 below.
WOK has Spectre mitigation enabled by default but requires spectre mitigated libraries to
be installed with Visual Studio for each architecture you are developing for. Additionally,
developing drivers for ARM/ARM64/ARM64EC require the build tools for these
architectures to also be installed with Visual Studio. To locate these items, you will need to
know the latest version of MSVC installed on your system,
To find the latest version of MSVC installed on your system, in Visual Studio Installer go to
workload page, on the right pane under installation details, expand Desktop
development with C++ and locate the MSVC v142 - VS 2019 C++ x64/x86 build tools
(V14.xx) - note where xx should be the highest version available.
With this information (v14.xx), go to Individual components and search for v14.xx. This will
return the tool sets for all architectures, including Spectre mitigated libs. Select the driver
architecture you are developing for. Alternatively you can search for ‘Latest’ and the most
recent version of MSVC will be displayed to select.
For example, searching for Latest returns the following:
Console ® copy
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MSVC v142 = VS 2019 C++ ARM build tools (Latest)
MSVC v142 - VS 2019 C++ ARM Spectre-mitigated libs (Latest)
MSVC v142 - VS 2019 C++ ARMG4 build tools (Latest)
MSVC v142 - VS 2019 C++ ARMG4 Spectre-mitigated libs (Latest)
MSVC v142 - VS 2019 C++ ARMG4EC build tools (Latest - experimental)
MSVC v142 - VS 2019 C++ ARMG4EC Spectre-mitigated libs (Latest - experimental)
MSVC v142 - VS 2019 C++ x64/x86 build tools (Latest)
MSVC v142 - VS 2619 C++ x64/x86 Spectre-mitigated libs (Latest)
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Step 2: Install Windows 11 SDK (22000.1)
Download Windows 11 SDK (22000.1)
This SDK must be installed separately until available through Visual Studio.
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Step 3: Install Windows 11 WDK
* Download WDK for Windows 11
The WDK Visual Studio extension is included in the default WDK installation,
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Ifyou can't find driver project templates in Visual Studio, the WOK Visual Studio
extension didn't install properly. To resolve this, run the WDK.vsix file from this
location: C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Vsix\VS2019\WDK.vsix.
Enterprise WDK (EWDK)
The EWDK is a standalone, self-contained command-line environment for building drivers.
It includes Visual Studio Build Tools, the SDK, and the WOK. The latest public version of the
EWDK contains Visual Studio 2019 Build Tools 16.9.2 and MSVC toolset v14.28. To get
started, mount the ISO and run LaunchBuildEnv.
The EWDK also requires the NET Framework version 4.7.2. For more information about
other requirements for the NET Framework, see NET Framework system requirements.
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v Windows 11 EWDK with Visual Studio Build Tools
Download the Windows 11 EWDK
You can use the Visual Studio interface with the build tools provided in the EWDK.
1, Mount the EWDK ISO.
2. Run LaunchBuildenv.cmd
3. In the environment created in step 2, type SetupVSEny, and then press Enter.
4, Launch devenv.exe from the same environment, using the full file path, Example:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual
Studio\2619\\%Community | Professional | Enterprise%\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe”
Note that the Visual Studio major version should match with the version in the EWDK.
For example, Visual Studio 2019 works with the EWDK that contain VS16.X build tools.
Driver samples for Windows
To download the driver samples, do one of the following:
* Go to the driver samples page on GitHub _, click Clone or download, and then click
Download ZIP.
* Download the GitHub Extension for Visual Studio, and then connect to the GitHub
repositories.
* Browse the driver samples on the Microsoft Samples portal
Related downloads
* Download the WDK Insider Preview
* Download previous versions of the WDK
* Download the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (Windows ADK)
* Download the Windows HLK
* Download the Windows Debugging Tools (WinDbg)
* Download Windows Symbol Packages
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