[ros-kernel] WinCE application support for WINE and ReactOS

[Jeff Smith]

sounds interesting, hopes this works, I trid the binaries, and they all 
crash in XP... however atleast it get to the point where it can crash, and 
with this compatibility layer, we very well might be more compatible with 
windows then windows :P

kinda like the old OS/2 motto "a better windows then Windows" think it 
was... anyways good job with this, and gl with it's future.


From: "Steven Edwards" <steven_ed4153 at yahoo.com>
To: <wine-devel at winehq.com>; <ros-kernel at reactos.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 1:16 PM
Subject: [ros-kernel] WinCE application support for WINE and ReactOS


> Hello All,
> This is all very experimental. I am working on in the ReactOS tree and
> it might not even work for larger apps but I am happy with the results
> so far.
>
> I was thinking the other day that ReactOS and WINE/Linux might get a
> big boost if we can push support in the embedded enviroment so I
> started taking a look at WinCE and Microsoft Embedded Visual C++ 4.0
> .BTW: Its a free download now.
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1dacdb3d-50d1-41b2-a107-fa75ae960856&DisplayLang=en
>
> I started looking at WinCE and thought it would be nice if we could be
> source compatible with WinCE apps and binary compatbile on x86. Well it
> seems that WinCE apps dont differ much from standard Win32 apps execpt
> the subsystem ID is differnt. If you attempt to run a WinCE application
> on Windows it will say that its not able to run. Ok no problem, we just
> run "editbin /subsystem:windows blah.exe" and check it out. Now the app
> is looking for coredll.dll. No problem there I have created a stub
> coredll.dll that just forwards all calls to the proper Win32 dlls such
> as user32, kernel32, etc.....
>
> .....and check it out. My little messagebox test works on Windows. Ok
> soon then I go and run the same test on ReactOS but this time I run a
> copy of messagebox without changing the subsystem ID...Hey what do you
> know. It works =). I talked with Alexandre about it a bit and he said
> that WINE like ReactOS also shouldnt care about the subsystem ID so if
> someone is interested in testing just drop the messagebox programs and
> coredll.dll in to a directory and give it a shot.
>
> I am having trouble getting more complex apps (hello world) to work atm
> so I think i am just going to take a break and clear my head for a few
> days. Some of the WinCE API and Win32 is not 100% compatible so we cant
> just forward all parts to the Win32 implementation but I think we can
> do it for most of it. If anyone is interested in helping out the source
> is in the ROS CVS tree and attached to this email......
>
> binary.zip
> messagebox.exe - wince messagebox program
> msgbox.exe - wince messagebox program with subsystem id changed to
> Windows.
> wincehel.exe - Hello World WinCE app
> wincehelw.exe - Hello World WinCE app with subsystem id changed to
> Windows.
> coredll.dll - WinCE Win32 API
> commctl.dll - WInCE common controls API.
>
> source.zip
> coredll - dummy forwarder dll
> commctl - dummy stub dll for common controls
>
> Thanks
> Steven
>
>
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