[ros-kernel] Re: [ros-cvs] CVS Update: reactos

[Richard Campbell]

Wouldn't the goal be to get both ROS and Wine to compile using the 
win32api headers?  This way you could eliminate at least the ROS build 
system.

Steven Edwards wrote:

>Hello Richard,
>Not in source form other than in Winehq CVS. I am sorry but we cant
>commit them to CVS yet. Shell32, ole* and winmm need to be fixed to
>build with the PSDK and w32api. We can keep forking the hell out of
>source code or we can do it right. Currently w32api lacks some needed
>diffinitions for the COM methods used in WINEs ole32 and shell32
>implementation and I dont really know what it is going to take to get
>this in to w32api. WINE has its own IDL compiler that they use to
>generate the headers for the com objects so we may have to import WIDL
>and fork the missing headers and dlls. 
>
>We have a few options with how to deal with this:
>1. Keep forking them as we have until Vizzini can get a CVS branching
>system worked out. There are some issues with this due to the fact that
>Winehq CVS is in a bit of a mess and I would rather wait till that
>cleanup is done. Still each dll needs to be fixed one at a time. If you
>want to import a snapshot of Ole32 from Winehq by all means please do
>it but its going to get out of sync quick unless we can fix the SDK
>situation. We are trying to keep from forking the source as much as
>possible.
>
>2. I have a server I am willing to host a Mingw-Cross compiler and
>Website on so we can make the Wine DLLs a optional package. We could
>script it to be a weekly build or something if you want.
>
>There is still a issue with debugging the WINE dlls under ReactOS that
>we havent addressed. Does Winedbgc.dll seem to do anything for anyone?
>All of the Wine debug channels seem to just be sprintf fuctions that
>are redirected to either Wineserver under Unix or the console under
>ReactOS. We really need to implement the Wine debug channels as a
>DPRINT, DbgPrint or OutputDebugString.
>
>Thanks
>Steven
>
>--- Richard Campbell <eek2121 at comcast.net> wrote:
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>
>>Are there more recent versions of these files floating around? 
>>explorer 
>>does not start with these files, can someone commit the source to the
>>
>>versions that explorer does start with?
>>
>>Richard Campbell wrote:
>>
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>>>CVSROOT:	/CVS/ReactOS
>>>Module name:	reactos
>>>Repository:	./
>>>Changes by:	rcampbell at mok.osexperts.com.(none)	03/11/29 06:46:12
>>>
>>>Modified files:
>>>	./: install-unix.sh install.bat 
>>>
>>>Log message:
>>>	Install comctl32, winmm, and ole32
>>>
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