Home/ Questions/Q 6990111
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-05-27T19:18:13+00:00

I was just trying to use NtCreateSection in my code and the information at

  • 0

I was just trying to use NtCreateSection in my code and the information at this link states the requirement as ntdll.lib. As Im using VS2010, I went to Projects > Properties > Linker > Input > Additional Dependencies and added ntdll.lib.

However, on building the solution I get an error error C3861: 'NtCreateSection': identifier not found. I’m curious about why this happens.

A workaround I’m considering is getting a handle to ntdll using LoadLibrary and getting a handle to NtCreateSection using GetProcAddress; however Im just curious about why the earlier method did not work out.

Thanks!

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    Perhaps of interest is the actual documentation of the function: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff556473(v=vs.85).aspx

    This points you to a ZwCreateSection function, which notes that NtCreateSection is the name to be used for user-mode calls to this function: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff566428(vr85).aspx

    In the standard header/library reference in the actual documentation, it says Wdm.h is the header to be included. I would recommend checking that file for the function(s), and proceeding from there. The docs for both functions, and the guide pages linked from them, also seem to have some info on things.

    • 0