Question

I want to install a driver for Ext2 partitions under Windows XP, the installation will be done with a self written Inno Setup script. Which API functions do I need to call for this? From what I googled so far I don’t seem to be needing an inf file, and therefore no call to SetupCopyOEMInf. But I don’t know what to do instead…

Please enlighten me!

Answer 1

As you asked which API functions are required to install a driver here is some code I use to load a driver in C:

bool LoadDriver( const char * cpDriverPath, const char * cpDriverName ) {     SC_HANDLE hSCService;     SC_HANDLE hSCManager;      hSCManager = OpenSCManager( NULL, NULL, SC_MANAGER_ALL_ACCESS );     if( hSCManager == NULL )         return false;      hSCService = CreateService( hSCManager, cpDriverName, cpDriverName,                                 SERVICE_ALL_ACCESS, SERVICE_KERNEL_DRIVER,                                 SERVICE_DEMAND_START, SERVICE_ERROR_NORMAL,                                 cpDriverPath, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL );      if( hSCService == NULL && GetLastError() == ERROR_SERVICE_EXISTS )         hSCService = OpenService( hSCManager, cpDriverName, SERVICE_ALL_ACCESS );      if( hSCService == NULL )         return false;      if( !StartService( hSCService, 0, NULL ) )     {         if( GetLastError() != ERROR_SERVICE_ALREADY_RUNNING )             return false;     }      CloseServiceHandle( hSCManager );     CloseServiceHandle( hSCService );      return true; } 

You probably want to use SERVICE_ BOOT_ START for a file system driver instead of SERVICE_ DEMAND_ START. If you cant write an Inno script to do the above you could always make a small EXE from the above and have Inno run that as a post installation.

If you want to go down the INF route, check out this Microsoft article.