[ros-general] rbuild related stuff

[Eduardo Menezes]

Important question: Does it run in Linux with Mono?

2008/6/22 Marc Piulachs <marc.piulachs at live.com>:

>  Hi All,
>
> I haven't been contributing much code to the reactos C++ build engine
> (RBUILD) lately but I have been improving my own C# implementation of it.
> Since it's truly OOP and well designed adding and testing new features is
> easier than with our buggy and messy rbuild.
>
> I use my C# implementation as a playground. My intention is to slowly
> extend rbuild to turn it in to a build and configuration engine (not only
> generate the makefile but also the registry and setup files depending on the
> modules being included).My build engine partly does it so I wanted to show
> some of the advantages and new features I will be adding to RBUILD in the
> following months. Some of them are already implemented on my rbuild branch
> (waiting for Colin to help me merging it back to trunk) while others are
> still to be coded.
>
> Interesting things to see:
>
> - We have arround 800 modules (including tests)
> - Diferent Bootable ISO images with diferent modules and default settings
> are being build from the same unmodified codebase. see
> http://www.marcpiulachs.com/reactos/
> - Updated reports : http://www.marcpiulachs.com/reactos/core/default.htm
> - Automatic dependecy tracker reports .See for example :
> http://www.marcpiulachs.com/reactos/core/ntoskrnl.htm
> - My testing reveals that the minium amount of modules required to produce
> a bootable ReactOS ISO is currently about 190. see :
> http://www.marcpiulachs.com/reactos/core/platform.htm. I have been unable
> to boot with less modules , by tweaking the registry it can probably be
> reduced even more.
> - Even our OS is quite modular we make alot of bad assumptions in our code.
> (We are not microsoft , we don't have to package our OS in a determinate
> manner due to obscure marketing reasons. some day reactos should be able to
> run on a standard pc , on a ARM based device with 64Mb of ram or as headless
> network router with no GUI at all so don't assume notepad or application XYZ
> to be present unless it's a *core* component)
> - All Iso images are created with an unmodifed code base except for two
> bugs I fixed in syssetup and setupapi
> - Our modules are not very configurable, we should use more defines to turn
> on and off not desired code at build time. (see linux kernel and xconfig)
>
> I will share more information about how these images are being generated in
> case anyone is interested and like always, I'm open to your ideas and
> constructive comments!
>
> Regards,
> Marc
>
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Eduardo
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