Get the Enterprise Windows Driver Kit (EWDK) Insider Preview See more at Installing the Enterprise WDK. Install Enterprise WDK (EWDK) Insider PreviewĪs an alternative to the above steps, the EWDK is a standalone self-contained command-line environment for building drivers that includes Build Tools for Visual Studio 2022. Install WDK Insider Previewĭuring installation you will see the Visual Studio installer install the WDK Visual Studio Extensions. The WDK Visual Studio Extensions are currently not strong name signed. Note that the WDK has Spectre mitigation enabled by default but requires Spectre mitigated libraries to be installed with Visual Studio for each architecture you are developing for. For Arm64 and Arm64EC drivers, you must additionally install the component: Individual components -> Compilers, build tools, and runtimes -> Visual C++ compilers and libraries for Arm64/Arm64EC.The WDK no longer supports Visual Studio 2019.

The WDK now supports Visual Studio 2022.

Install Windows Driver Kit (WDK) Insider Preview 1.

The download links for the latest pre-release version of the WDK and the EWDK are on. This page contains installation instructions for Insider Preview (pre-release) versions of the Windows Driver Kit (WDK).

Instal the new Spectre