Our company develops systems that work with hardware using drivers for Windows. At the moment, we needed to make some edits to a driver written in C++ in 2004 for Windows XP. We found several source code files from previous years, but after compiling them, none of them worked with our system, which works with hardware in Windows XP. Now I am looking for tools for debugging drivers in Windows XP, so that I can understand the source code and the driver’s operation. I found a link to WinDbg, but I did not find where to download WinDbg for Windows XP. What driver debugging tools are there for Windows XP?
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Microsoft has a paragraph addressing your situation
If you’re debugging Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, or Windows Server 2008 (or using one of these operating systems to run Debugging Tools for Windows), you need to use the Windows 7 release of the debugging tools. It’s included in the SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 4.0.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/other-wdk-downloads#standalone-tools-for-debugging-windows-xp-and-windows-vista
The download link on that page is broken but these load: Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 4 (Web setup) (ISO disk image)