microsoft/windows-drivers-rs

Platform that enables Windows driver development in Rust

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Forks: 136
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 88
Avg merge: 7d 7h
Merged PRs (30d): 4

Dominant language: Rust
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 17, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
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88 open issues indexed

README's LLVM version guidance is stale — LLVM 19+ isn't uniformly safe (see #659) Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 70/100

microsoft/windows-drivers-rs#736 · Opened Sep 10, 2026
`cargo-wdk`: File-based configuration for build and packaging options Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

microsoft/windows-drivers-rs#731 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 27, 2026
Refactor `cargo-wdk` CLI error handling Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/windows-drivers-rs#724 · Opened Aug 22, 2026
Add cargo-wdk version for MacOS ecosystems Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/windows-drivers-rs#712 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 7, 2026
`--all-targets` may unify "test-stubs" into a `cdylib` target when enabled for tests, which can cause issues with linking Open

microsoft/windows-drivers-rs#711 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 5, 2026
Add tests for cargo-wdk help Open

infrastructure

microsoft/windows-drivers-rs#663 · 1 assignee · Opened May 27, 2026
Refactor `PackageTask` to match the order in the WDK (MSBuild): operate on intermediate files, assemble the package folder last Open

microsoft/windows-drivers-rs#660 · 1 assignee · Opened May 22, 2026
[cargo-wdk] Gate `mockall/mockall_double` behind `cfg(test)`, move to `[dev-dependencies]`, and clean up the provider/consumer mocking pattern Open

cleanup

microsoft/windows-drivers-rs#651 · 3 assignees · Opened Apr 28, 2026
Add UMDF panic registration function from wdk-panic to cargo-wdk UMDF template Open

enhancement next-release-priority

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100

microsoft/windows-drivers-rs#646 · Opened Apr 21, 2026
Refactor directory walk into an iterator pattern Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/windows-drivers-rs#644 · Opened Apr 20, 2026
Support / roadmap for DDI coverage: _kernel and _acpi Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/windows-drivers-rs#633 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 19, 2026
wdk-build: The `signtool-sign` build process requires network connection for a little value Open

microsoft/windows-drivers-rs#631 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 13, 2026
Implement an `eprintln!` macro and replace the `println!` implementation in `dbg!` Open

enhancement infrastructure

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/windows-drivers-rs#616 · Opened Feb 19, 2026
Remove assert_matches conditional compilation helpers once Stable Rust >= 1.96.0 Open

cleanup

microsoft/windows-drivers-rs#615 · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 18, 2026
`cargo-wdk` integration tests fail intermittently when Rust Analyzer is enabled (cargo clean can’t delete build-script) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

microsoft/windows-drivers-rs#607 · 4 comments · Opened Feb 3, 2026
Use Trusted Publishing to publish crates to crates.io Open

enhancement infrastructure

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/windows-drivers-rs#557 · Opened Nov 1, 2025
`cargo-wdk` should support passing arguments to invoked tools Open

cargo-make-deprecation enhancement

microsoft/windows-drivers-rs#555 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 22, 2025
Look into using `trycmd` for testing `cargo-wdk` Open

infrastructure

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/windows-drivers-rs#525 · Opened Oct 2, 2025
Enable cargo-wdk to package drivers using a .inf file rather than a .inx file. Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/windows-drivers-rs#518 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 24, 2025
Implement mutually exclusive header support in bindgen invocations (constants, types, API-subsets) Open

enhancement

microsoft/windows-drivers-rs#516 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 23, 2025
Support mutually exclusive header groupings in wdk-build (reusable and version-aware) Open

enhancement

microsoft/windows-drivers-rs#514 · 1 comment · 2 assignees · Opened Sep 23, 2025
Implement mutually exclusive header support in start_wdf_symbol_export_tasks Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

microsoft/windows-drivers-rs#515 · Opened Sep 23, 2025
Migrate to fs errors with extra metadata Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

microsoft/windows-drivers-rs#508 · Opened Sep 11, 2025
Add attribute macro for pageable functions Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/windows-drivers-rs#507 · Opened Sep 10, 2025
Running tests on `cdylib` driver crates cause failure in Github Actions Runner Open

microsoft/windows-drivers-rs#502 · 2 comments · 2 assignees · Opened Sep 9, 2025
Separate out integration test for cargo wdk build for the case when certificate is already present Open

enhancement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

microsoft/windows-drivers-rs#488 · Opened Aug 28, 2025
Validate parameters supplied to the cargo-wdk build command Open

microsoft/windows-drivers-rs#482 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 26, 2025
Support for extended paths (cargo-wdk) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/windows-drivers-rs#481 · 4 comments · Opened Aug 26, 2025
`cargo wdk build` does not match `cargo build` behavior for workspaces Open

cargo-make-deprecation

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

microsoft/windows-drivers-rs#477 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 21, 2025
Support target override for wdk-pre-commit-flow task Open

enhancement infrastructure

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/windows-drivers-rs#449 · Opened Aug 7, 2025
Add --workspace flag to cargo-wdk Open

cargo-make-deprecation

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/windows-drivers-rs#433 · Opened Aug 1, 2025
[cargo-wdk] Newly created project should build successfully Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

microsoft/windows-drivers-rs#423 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 14, 2025
[cargo-wdk] Add basic validations to build sub command Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 50/100

microsoft/windows-drivers-rs#422 · Opened Jul 11, 2025
Improve path construction logic/functions in `wdk-build` Open

microsoft/windows-drivers-rs#413 · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 5, 2025
Use the latest versions of headers available in the Kit by default (short term), and be metadata configurable (medium term) Open

enhancement

microsoft/windows-drivers-rs#412 · 5 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 5, 2025
Evaluate cargo-vet Open

infrastructure

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/windows-drivers-rs#404 · Opened Jun 18, 2025
Add cargo-deny check to CI pipeline Open

infrastructure

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/windows-drivers-rs#403 · Opened Jun 18, 2025
Use renovatebot to auto update deps in example and test project Cargo tomls Open

infrastructure

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/windows-drivers-rs#376 · Opened Jun 5, 2025
Use renovatebot to auto update deps in Github action workflow files Open

infrastructure

microsoft/windows-drivers-rs#375 · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 5, 2025
Use renovatebot to auto update deps in Makefile toml files Open

infrastructure

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/windows-drivers-rs#374 · Opened Jun 5, 2025
Use Renovatebot to auto update deps on the windows-rust-driver-samples repo Open

infrastructure

microsoft/windows-drivers-rs#373 · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 5, 2025
Setup pipeline to trigger build on windows-rust-driver-samples with the latest ToT commit of cargo-wdk Open

infrastructure

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

microsoft/windows-drivers-rs#368 · Opened Jun 4, 2025
[cargo-wdk] Make cargo-wdk to work with a workspace containing both sample and non-sample drivers Open

microsoft/windows-drivers-rs#361 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened May 27, 2025
[cargo-wdk] Clarify terminology in Readme Open

enhancement

microsoft/windows-drivers-rs#357 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · 2 assignees · Opened May 21, 2025
HID hidport.h headers missing for UMDF build Open

good first issue

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/windows-drivers-rs#355 · 3 comments · Opened May 14, 2025
[cargo-wdk] Ensure cargo-wdk and the build script uses the same version of wdk-build and other deps Open

cargo-make-deprecation enhancement

microsoft/windows-drivers-rs#351 · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened May 12, 2025
symbol linking problem Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/windows-drivers-rs#338 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 14, 2025
Prevent auto-linkage of UMDF DbgPrint Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

microsoft/windows-drivers-rs#333 · Opened Apr 5, 2025
cargo clippy failure for crate level UMDF config Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/windows-drivers-rs#331 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 4, 2025
Support for WDF_DECLARE_SHARED_CONTEXT_TYPE Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/windows-drivers-rs#330 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 2, 2025

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