KNSoft.NDK 1.2.15-beta

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KNSoft.NDK

KNSoft.NDK provides native C/C++ definitions and import libraries for Windows NT development.

Feature

• Windows NT
  • Undocumented API declarations and type definitions, e.g. Nt/Zw*, Ldr*, PEB, TEB, LDR_*, ...
  • Import library for Windows DLL exports, e.g. KERNEL32.dll!CreateProcessInternalW, ntdll.dll!LdrRegisterDllNotification, ...
  • Addendum to Windows SDK
  • Extension macros and definitions, e.g. NtCurrentPeb(), PEB(64/32), TEB(64/32), ...
• Packages
  • SMBIOS Specification
  • CPUID Specification
  • Unit Test Framework
  • StrSafe.h (different from strsafe.h in Windows SDK)

Usage

TL;DR

Include NDK.h instead of (or BEFORE) Windows.h will do.

#include <KNSoft/NDK/NDK.h>

NuGet package KNSoft.NDK includes all the headers and import libraries.

Details

The following features are NOT enabled by default, reference corresponding headers and libraries on demand:

• Specifications
  • CPUID: CPUID.h
  • SMBIOS: SMBIOS.h
• Ntdll Hash API ((A_SHA/MD4/MD5)(Init/Update/Final))
  • Ntdll.Hash.h
  • KNSoft.NDK.Ntdll.Hash.lib (Generated from KNSoft.NDK.Ntdll.Hash.xml)
• Windows API import library addendum
  • KNSoft.NDK.WinAPI.lib (Generated from KNSoft.NDK.WinAPI.xml)
• Unit Test Framework
  • UnitTest.h
  • UnitTest.inl
• Safe string functions (different from strsafe.h in Windows SDK)
  • StrSafe.h

The following features are enabled by default, can be excluded by defining corresponding macro:

Compatibility

KNSoft.NDK always follow up the latest Windows NT and specifications, targets to x86, x64 and ARM64 platforms.

Only support the latest MSVC generation tools and SDKs.

[!CAUTION] In beta stage, should be used with caution.

License

KNSoft.NDK is licensed under the MIT license.

The content from the following public sources were lawfully used:

• Microsoft WDK/DDK/SDK
• Microsoft Public Symbolic Data
• Microsoft Learning
• Microsoft Windows Protocols
• Windows Internals

And public projects:

• phnt (from winsiderss/systeminformer, commit 03afb6d5) - MIT

KNSoft.NDK also uses KNSoft/Precomp4C to generate DLL import libraries.