tenox7/pint40sdk repository overview

⁠pint40sdk

The PINT 4.0 SDK. It builds programs and DLLs for PINT 4.0⁠, Windows NT 4.0 on ARM (Raspberry Pi 2, 3, 4 and Zero 2 W), with Microsoft C for ARM (MSVC 14.44, the last MSVC with an ARM32 target) under Wine. It runs natively on arm64 (Apple Silicon) and on amd64.

It has:

• the headers of Windows NT 4.0 (Win32, the C run-time, OpenGL, POSIX), as PINT builds with them
• PINT's libraries: the import libraries of its DLLs and its C run-times
• the win32.mak of the Win32 SDK, with ARM in it
• its own cl and link: they run those of Microsoft C for ARM and mark each image for Windows NT 4.0 (the linker for ARM marks it 6.02, which NT 4.0 does not start)
• samples in /opt/pint40sdk/samples: hello, winhello (a window, a menu, a dialog), dll, cpp

No MFC. The image contains no Microsoft software: msvc-setup downloads Microsoft C for ARM from Microsoft into a volume, as in tenox7/msvc-arm32⁠, which this image is built on.

⁠Install

Once:

docker run --rm -e ACCEPT_MSVC_LICENSE=yes -v msvc-arm32:/opt/msvc tenox7/pint40sdk msvc-setup

ACCEPT_MSVC_LICENSE=yes accepts the Visual Studio Build Tools license⁠. A volume set up with tenox7/msvc-arm32 works too.

⁠Use

In the directory of the sources:

docker run --rm -v msvc-arm32:/opt/msvc -v "$PWD":/src tenox7/pint40sdk cl hello.c
docker run --rm -v msvc-arm32:/opt/msvc -v "$PWD":/src tenox7/pint40sdk nmake

The commands are cl link nmake rc of the SDK and lib dumpbin editbin of Microsoft C. The sources are in /src (Z:\src for the tools). docker run --rm tenox7/pint40sdk prints the SDK's README.

Copy the program onto PINT's SD card (its FAT partition) or onto a share, and run it.

⁠Limits

• Only the functions of Windows NT 4.0, as PINT has them. No MFC.
• C and C++ (exceptions with -EHsc or -EHa, run-time types). With -MD, a program that throws needs PINT 4.0 of 2026-11-04 or later. The C++ library is that of Visual C++ 4.2 (<iostream.h>); no STL.
• No ARM assembler headers, no MIDL, no message compiler, no help compiler.