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

[Robert Köpferl]

WinCE is a "cleaned up" win32 api. For example just the ....Ex -Calls 
remain.
But for the compiler it sounds rather nice. Why not take just the naked 
compiler to compile SEH enabled and more optimized binarys.

Steven Edwards schrieb:

> 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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