[ros-kernel] Re: Mingw patch for CoLinux console/deamon

[Steven Edwards]

Hi Dan,

--- Dan Aloni <da-x at colinux.org> wrote:
> Anyway, as from the 20040411 snapshot, the daemon and console-nt
> don't 
> depend on Cygwin, so you can test console-nt to see if it works on
> ReactOS.
> 
> > 2. The user has to go download/install the mxml sources for the
> > mingw-crosscompiler. Once again its small we could ship this with
> the
> > coLinux sources.
> 

Cool. I sent test binarys to most of the ReactOS developers that are
interested in this when I did my port to mingw. Currently we are
debugging some issues in our named pipes and service control manager
implemenation. Once this is done CoLinux should just "work". I tested
loading linux.sys standalone as a boot driver and ReactOS is able to do
this with no issue so once we have the SCM/Pipe issues worked out I
thnk we should be able to load vmlinux. I have sent a copy of this
message to ros-kernel to try and get a few more developers interested
in kicking out the SCM/Pipe issues.
 
> > 5. It links to ws2_32 but I have not tested the networking stuff so
> we
> > will have to adapt the rest to use use Winsock but it will still be
> > faster than using Cygwin->Winsock.
> 
> That networking code in the daemon is not that important (used for 
> debugging).

who needs a debugger anyway...It may still be a while for ReactOS to
really show use to the CoLinux team as our networking still has large
spots that are not connected. Its my hope that in the next few months
we can plug those holes so that any Linux user that need a Windows
driver can deploy ReactOS with CoLinux running on top.

Thanks
Steven


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