[ros-dev] Why so small?

[Justin Haygood]

No. ATL and MFC is in Visual Studio only

On 4/2/07, Anders Bergh <anders at andersman.org> wrote:
>
> I could be wrong of course, but isn't MFC available in VC++ 2005
> Express, which is free?
>
> On 4/2/07, Wesley Parish <wes.parish at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> > On Monday 02 April 2007 06:40, Jason Ward wrote:
> > > Ok I want to start developing for reactos. I will use NASM. Not C/C++.
> > >
> > > So how do I start? do you send me a list of things you want done and
> then I
> > > do them?
> > > It would take me too long to go through all the source code so I
> figured
> > > that I could just write
> > > whatever you ask me to.
> > >
> > > I am a Com Sci undergraduate. I can program in RosAsm so I shouldn't
> have
> > > too much trouble converting to NASM. I can read C++. I can program in
> > > python, some basic, pascal. And I am learning Java in University.
> > >
> > > I have next to no knowledge of the win32api. I know quite a bit of
> OpenGL
> > > though.
> >
> > First things first, get yourself a copy of theForger's Tutorial:
> > http://www.winprog.org/tutorial/
> > Then a copy of Petzold's "Programming Windows".  It will give you a
> start in
> > understanding the Win32 API, which is nothing like the POSIX API.
> >
> > Ignore books like "Windows 2000 Developer's Guide" and so - they tend to
> be
> > MFC-heavy and Win32 API-light.  MFC's only useful if you're intending to
> do
> > serious Windows applications development, and so, it's useless for an MS
> > Windows-class operating system project like ReactOS.  And besides, MFC's
> only
> > available for people who pay the big bucks for Visual Studio - it's
> > Microsoft's proprietary extensions built on top of the Win32 API.
> >
> > To get your head around the ReactOS kernel, you should take a look at
> Gary
> > Nebbett's "Windows NT/2000 Native API Reference".  Russinovich and
> > Solomon's "Windows Internals" is a good start to get your head around
> the MS
> > WinNT structure/architecture - it used to be "Inside Windows
> [NT|2000|etc]".
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > Wesley Parish
> > > No Directx knowledge.
> >
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