Question

I wanna to compile my c plus plus project that using boost library with WDK rather than VisualStudio.

My computer’s OS is Windows7-64bit, the WDK version is 7.6 and boost library version is 1.51

Once I compile my source code project, the WDK compiler will occure an error:

e:\lib\boost_1_51_0\boost\array.hpp(72) : error C2039: 'ptrdiff_t' : is not a member of 'std' .

Whole project’s file contents are as follow:

File sources:

TARGETTYPE=PROGRAM
TARGETNAME=helloworld

UMENTRY=main
USE_MSVCRT=1
USE_NATIVE_EH=1

#
# use iostream package and STL
#
USE_IOSTREAM=1
USE_STL=1
STL_VER=70

#
# my boost library root directory
#
BOOST_INC_PATH=E:\lib\boost_1_51_0

INCLUDES=$(BOOST_INC_PATH)
TARGETLIBS=$(SDK_LIB_PATH)\user32.lib

SOURCES=HelloWorld.cpp

UMTYPE=console
UMBASE=0x4000000

File HelloWorld.cpp:

#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <string>
#include <boost/array.hpp> 

void InvokeVector()
{
    //invoke STL's vector
    std::vector<std::string> vec;
    vec.push_back("Entry ");
    vec.push_back("of ");
    vec.push_back("Vector");
    vec.push_back("……\n");
    //print vec
    for (int i=0; i<vec.size(); i++) {
        std::cout<<vec.at(i);
    }
}

void InvokeBoost()
{
    //invoke Boost's array<T, N>
    boost::array<int, 3> arr = {1, 2, 3};
    for (int i=0; i<arr.size(); i++) {
        std::cout<<"arr["<<i<<"]"<<"is" <<arr[i]<<std::endl;
    }
}

int main()
{
//  InvokeVector();  //run normally
    InvokeBoost(); //it will occure an error
    return 0;
}

Could you please teach me how to solve this problem? Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

Short answer: No.

But you can port some.

It’s well explained here : The NT Insider:Guest Article: C++ in an NT Driver

One of the main problems with C++ in the
kernel is that most of the “nice” features of the language are not
directly available in that mode. Some are easy to recreate and we will
see how to do that. However, some features should be forgotten such as
C++ exceptions, which are not the same as kernel exceptions.

Such features have to be forgotten simply because there is no support
for them in kernel mode. Translation: does not compile. If you have
the time and energy you may attempt to port them to kernel mode, but
frankly, exceptions are too slow for kernel mode. This will have an
impact on your C++ coding style, which is something you should keep in
mind.