[ros-kernel] Headers, headers everywhere

[Steven Edwards]

--- Vizzini <vizzini at plasmic.com> wrote:
> [sorry, this e-mail got a little long on me...]
> 
> I don't want to divert the current wine forking thread into this so
> I'm
> starting a new one.  Please reference bug 9
> (http://reactos.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9) for more information.

I will create a tasklist on the but if my ideas are adopted.

> Opinions?  I'd particularly like to hear from anyone who has debated
> this in the past and reached a conclusion.

We need to know more from the Mingw people that watch this list how we
can together better. Danny if your watching this thread please jump in.
This SDK/DDK system is a mess.

1. Wine has a perl script wine/tools/winapi/msvcmaker that will create
visual studio makefiles for given dlls/tools/programs. I would suggest
as part of every minor release/regression test we get some people to
test building our apps and programs with this. We should adopt this
tool or something like it to create a enviroment where we can test
everything on MS_VC + PSDK.

2. We create a script like the one above but for drivers that will
allow people that own a copy of the WinXP/2K3 Server DDK to test/build
ReactOS drivers. 

3. We give up on every building the system with anything other than
Mingw+w32api the Windows SDK/DDK. Anything else to much work. If
someone wants to ever support ReactOS with Watcom or BCC more power to
you just dont expect the ReactOS project to ever focus on this.

4. This is a project that will not happen over night. We should start
one DLL/Driver at a time. In each makefile add the flag -D__USE_W32API.

Thanks
Steven


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