Windows Embedded Compact 2013(WEC2013) Platform Builder Installation and Evaluation

As we all know Microsoft has officially launched the much awaited Windows Embedded Compact 2013, let us have a hands on with the installation and evaluation of the new platform builder tools which is a plugin to the latest Visual Studio 2012.

Here are the screenshots of the WEC2013 platform builder installations steps.

Mount the ISO file which is downloaded above. Click on the Begin Install. Accept the License agreement.

Windows Embedded Compact 2013 Installation

Now enter the product key which you got from the MSDN subscription site or the Evaluation key.

windows embedded compact 2013

By default the WEC2013 Platform builder tools installed in the C:\(OS default Directory).But we can change the directory of the source code install. For that we need to choose “Custom Install” and browse the directory where you want to install the development source code.

Installation Option

As we had choose “Custom Install” it will show the option of components which needs to be installed.

Summary - Windows Embedded Compact 2013

Accept the license agreement for shared source and WestTek File viewers.
As we are downloading the ISO file and installing this installer offline we don’t want to create a local layout copy.

Install Offline Layout

Clicking Next will show the estimated disk size required for the installation of the WEC2013.

Proceed installation

Once the installation is finished, the below screen will appear.

Installation Finished

Now we have installed the WEC2013 successfully and we are good to go to play with it.

Installation Completed Successfully

Evaluation:

There are totally three Board Support Packages(BSPs) comes as part of the Platform Builder installation.

X86 Microprocessor BSPs

  • CEPC -> this BSP supports PC-based hardware, virtual machines hosted by Virtual-PC, and virtual machines hosted by Hyper-V Client or Hyper-V Server
  • Gseries ->This BSP is for the AMD G-Series processor based development kit.

ARM BSP

  • TI_SDP44XX-> This BSP is for TI OMAP4470(Dual Core Cortex A9 MP) Blaze Tablet 2 Development kit with the support of Symmetric Multiprocessing.

To get hands on with the tools and OS we can take CEPC BSP and deploy it on VirtualPC.

After installing the WEC2013 PB, open the Visual Studio 2012.Select File–>New Project–>Platform Builder–>OS Design. Avoid using spaces in the naming and path of the OSDesign.

OS Design
We will evaluate the OS with the help of VirtualPC,so we have to select the “Generic CEPC:x86” from the BSP list.

Board Support Packages

Moving to the next wizard will show us the pre-defined templates which will help us to create OS design quicker. Here we can select the “Win32 and WinForms UI Device“.

Create an OS design
From this WEC2013 release Microsoft had removed the “Standard shell” with the start button on the left corner of the Taskbar. Also in this WEC2013 they had given “Minimal Shell” with the source code using which we candevelop (custom wec2013 shell)our own shell.

OS Design
Click finish and compile the OS using “Build –>Advanced Build Commands–> Sysgen” in either Checked or release mode.

During build time we can setup the VirtualPC in order to deploy the compiled nk.bin.There are few articles available online to setup the VirtualPC for WEC7.The same procedure is followed for deploying the WEC2013 OS.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj200348.aspx

After setting up VirtualPC on the Windows 7 machine,downloaded the compiled OS binary to the VirtualPC.

Here is the “Minimal Shell” screenshot of the new WEC2013 running on VirtualPC.

Windows virtual PC

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