How to add additional printer drivers (x86 / x64) programmatically under Windows XP, 2003,7,2008

Question

I wrote a printer driver that works on x86 and x64 MS Windows systems. I also wrote a program that installs the printer driver using the AddPrinterDriver and AddPrinter functions.

So far so good. The fact is that if I want to share this printer with an x64 system with an x86 system, the x64 print server must have additional drivers for the installed x86 systems.

Now I could just install additional drivers through "Printer Properties" → "Sharing" → "Additional Drivers" and select the desired .inf file, but I want to do this through my setup program.

Does anyone know how to do this?

Thanks for the help!

Answer 1

So, I found the solution myself. There should be a better and easier way, but it works well.

When installing the driver, also copy the necessary architecture files to other architectures. x86 driver for xool spooler driver dir, x64-x64 buffer queue manager driver, etc.

Then, before calling AddPrinterDriver and AddPrinter, you must add several registry values ​​for each other architecture that you want to support. Then call AddPrinterDriver and AddPrinter only for the underlying os architecture in which you install your driver.

Registry values ​​must be added to

SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Control \ Print \ Environments \ {TARGET_ENVIROMENT} \ Drivers \ Version-3 \ {NAME_OF_YOUR_DRIVER}

{TARGET_ENVIROMENT} , , . "Windows NT x86"; "Windows x64"; "Windows IA64" {NAME_OF_YOUR_DRIVER} drivername, AddPrinterDriver. , , , AddPrinterDriver . . AddPrinterDriver AddPrinter .

Win32 x86 x64 x64 ( ):

    DWORD uSize;
    BYTE driver_dir_x86[MAX_PATH];
    BYTE driver_dir_x64[MAX_PATH];

    GetPrinterDriverDirectory(NULL,"Windows NT x86",1,driver_dir_x86,MAX_PATH,&uSize);
    GetPrinterDriverDirectory(NULL,"Windows x64",1,driver_dir_x64,MAX_PATH,&uSize);


    CopyFile(".\x86\printer_driver.dll",driver_dir_x86);
    CopyFile(".\x86\PRINTER.PPD",driver_dir_x86);
    CopyFile(".\x86\PRINTERUI.DLL",driver_dir_x86);
    CopyFile(".\x86\PRINTER.HLP",driver_dir_x86);

    CopyFile(".\x64\printer_driver.dll",driver_dir_x64);
    CopyFile(".\x86\PRINTER.PPD",driver_dir_x64);
    CopyFile(".\x86\PRINTERUI.DLL",driver_dir_x64);
    CopyFile(".\x86\PRINTER.HLP",driver_dir_x64);

    //Insert x86 additional drivers to registry
   RegOpenKeyEx(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, "SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\Print\\Environments\\Windows NT x86\\Drivers\\Version-3\\", 0, KEY_ALL_ACCESS, &hkey);
   RegCreateKey(hkey, "My_Printer_Drivername", &hsubkey);       {
   RegSetValueEx(hsubkey, "Dependent Files", 0, REG_MULTI_SZ, (BYTE*)"", lstrlen("")+1);
   RegSetValueEx(hsubkey, "Previous Names", 0, REG_MULTI_SZ, (BYTE*)"", lstrlen("")+1);
   RegSetValueEx(hsubkey, "ColorProfiles", 0, REG_MULTI_SZ, (BYTE*)"", lstrlen("")+1);
   RegSetValueEx(hsubkey, "CoreDependencies", 0, REG_MULTI_SZ, (BYTE*)"", lstrlen("")+1);
   DWORD Val = 3;
   RegSetValueEx(hsubkey, "Version", 0, REG_DWORD, (BYTE*)&Val, sizeof(DWORD));
   Val = 0;
   RegSetValueEx(hsubkey, "TempDir", 0, REG_DWORD, (BYTE*)&Val, sizeof(DWORD));
   Val = 2;
   RegSetValueEx(hsubkey, "Attributes", 0, REG_DWORD, (BYTE*)&Val, sizeof(DWORD));
   Val = 0;
   RegSetValueEx(hsubkey, "PrinterDriverAttributes", 0, REG_DWORD, (BYTE*)&Val, sizeof(DWORD));
   RegSetValueEx(hsubkey, "Configuration File", 0, REG_SZ, (BYTE*)"PRINTERUI.DLL", lstrlen("PRINTERUI.DLL")+1);
   RegSetValueEx(hsubkey, "Data File", 0, REG_SZ, (BYTE*)"PRINTER.PPD", lstrlen("PRINTER.PPD")+1);
   RegSetValueEx(hsubkey, "Driver", 0, REG_SZ, (BYTE*)"printer_driver.dll", lstrlen("printer_driver.dll")+1);
   RegSetValueEx(hsubkey, "Help File", 0, REG_SZ, (BYTE*)"PRINTER.HLP", lstrlen("PRINTER.HLP")+1);
   RegSetValueEx(hsubkey, "Monitor", 0, REG_SZ, (BYTE*)"", lstrlen("")+1);
   RegSetValueEx(hsubkey, "Datatype", 0, REG_SZ, (BYTE*)"RAW", lstrlen("RAW")+1);
   RegSetValueEx(hsubkey, "Manufacturer", 0, REG_SZ, (BYTE*)"", lstrlen("")+1);
   RegSetValueEx(hsubkey, "OEM URL", 0, REG_SZ, (BYTE*)"", lstrlen("")+1);
   RegSetValueEx(hsubkey, "HardwareID", 0, REG_SZ, (BYTE*)"", lstrlen("")+1);
   RegSetValueEx(hsubkey, "Provider", 0, REG_SZ, (BYTE*)"", lstrlen("")+1);
   RegSetValueEx(hsubkey, "Print Processor", 0, REG_SZ, (BYTE*)"", lstrlen("")+1);
   RegSetValueEx(hsubkey, "VendorSetup", 0, REG_SZ, (BYTE*)"", lstrlen("")+1);
   RegSetValueEx(hsubkey, "InfPath", 0, REG_SZ, (BYTE*)"", lstrlen("")+1);
   RegSetValueEx(hsubkey, "DriverDate", 0, REG_SZ, (BYTE*)"01/01/2010", lstrlen("01/01/2010")+1);
   RegSetValueEx(hsubkey, "DriverVersion", 0, REG_SZ, (BYTE*)"1.0.0.0", lstrlen("1.0.0.0")+1);
   RegSetValueEx(hsubkey, "MinInboxDriverVerDate", 0, REG_SZ, (BYTE*)"01/01/2010", lstrlen("01/01/2010")+1);
   RegSetValueEx(hsubkey, "MinInboxDriverVerVersion", 0, REG_SZ, (BYTE*)"1.0.0.0", lstrlen("1.0.0.0")+1);
   RegCloseKey(hsubkey);
   RegCloseKey(hkey);

   //Add x64 printer driver
   DRIVER_INFO_3 di3;
   ZeroMemory(&di3, sizeof(DRIVER_INFO_3)); 
   di3.cVersion = 0x03; 
   di3.pConfigFile = "PRINTERUI.DLL"; 
   di3.pDataFile = "PRINTER.PPD";       
   di3.pDependentFiles = "";
   di3.pDriverPath = "printer_driver.dll"; 
   di3.pEnvironment = "Windows x64";
   di3.pHelpFile = "PRINTER.HLP";
   di3.pMonitorName = NULL; 
   di3.pName = "My_Printer_Drivername";
   di3.pDefaultDataType = TEXT("RAW");
   AddPrinterDriver(NULL, 3, (LPBYTE)&di3);