[ros-kernel] Header issues (final attempt)

[Jason Filby]

Hi Eric

This sounds great - good luck!

On changing the licensing, please note that we are required to obtain

permission from the authors - this seems like a huge task! But
perhaps 
it is feasible? I don't know.

Cheers
Jason

Eric Kohl wrote:

>Hi!
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>I want to get rid of the current header chaos as a part of my
post-0.2.0 (or
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>pre-0.2.1) cleanup. I already replaced the WINBOOL type by BOOL and
I am
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>currently replacing WIN32 types (DWORD, WORD, BYTE, BOOL, LP*) in
the
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>kernel-mode and native code.
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>Please note that this is my final attempt to fix the headers. This
means
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>that I _am_ going to fix them, whether you like it or not. Your only
chance
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>it to raise your hand and notify me of potential problems but you
won't stop
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>me from ripping out the old headers. I take this stance because none
of the
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>previous discussions lead to a real change and I am sick of it.
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>My plan is to get rid of the MinGW headers because the MinGW team
does not
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>accept undocumented declarations. It is their decision but it is a
major
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>issue to us. We should neither use their headers nor their import
libraries
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>because we have our own ones.
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>I want to use our current msvcrt headers (in include/msvcrt) as the
new CRT
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>(C-Runtime-Libraty) headers and import the current Wine headers as
the new
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>Win32 headers.
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>This approach fixes most of our problems but some minor issues still
remain.
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>Several structures are declared in SDK and DDK headers and cause a
lot of
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>trouble if SDK and DDK functions a used in some user-mode code. M$
solves
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>this issue by defining '_NT_INCLUDED_' at the top of 'ntddk.h' and
by not
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>including some headers files in 'windows.h' if '_NT_INCLUDED_' is
defined.
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>Tis is a much cleaner way than our current '_USE_WIN32_' approach
but it
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>does not work with the old Win32 headers by Colin Peters.
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>IIRC, Alexandre is going to fix the '#include "header.h"' vs.
'#include
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><header.h>' issue.
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>Any comments?
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>Regards,
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>Eric
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