[ofw] error trying to install Windows stack

[Fab Tillier]

You could change the INF to only install the release bits.  The kernel drivers are generally all release bits, and both debug and release user-mode DLLs are installed so that a mix of apps (debug and release) can be run simultaneously.  The model could be changed so that the SDK installs the debug DLLs to support app development and the INF installs just the release bits.

The DLLs are there to provider kernel bypass functionality (mthcau.dll) and user-mode support (ibal.dll and complib.dll).  It comes down to whether you want to install the kernel bits only with the INF and then require a different installation mechanism for the user-mode bits, or whether you install everything from the INF.

-Fab

-----Original Message-----
From: ofw-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org [mailto:ofw-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org] On Behalf Of Sean Hefty
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 9:10 AM
To: 'Tzachi Dar'; ofw at lists.openfabrics.org
Subject: RE: [ofw] error trying to install Windows stack

>Please note that in order to make a full install on a 32 bits system one
>has to build free and check, to have all the files.

I didn't realize this.  Is this normal for Windows, or can we adjust the inf
file?  Actually, on that same note, why does installing the driver require a
dll?  (It literally has been years since I've worked on a Windows driver, so I'm
trying to re-learn all of this...)

- Sean

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