Hello everybody,
I am new here and would like to contribute to the ReactOS project. I would like to create (or at least start creating) the BlackShade msstyles theme as others have suggested on the forum. I have modified a CMake file to compile the theme, however I end up with the following console output:
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inf/cab deployment requires us to assign numeric identifiers to each directory, which is not very pretty in CMake.
You will need to add that path to boot/bootdata/packages/reactos.dff.in (search for Lautus, copy that line and give it a new number -- 59 seems to be free). Then also add it to the dir_to_num macro in sdk/cmake/CMakeMacros.cmake (using the number you assigned).
ThFabba wrote:inf/cab deployment requires us to assign numeric identifiers to each directory, which is not very pretty in CMake.
You will need to add that path to boot/bootdata/packages/reactos.dff.in (search for Lautus, copy that line and give it a new number -- 59 seems to be free). Then also add it to the dir_to_num macro in sdk/cmake/CMakeMacros.cmake (using the number you assigned).
Thank you for the prompt reply! I have made those changes and can confirm that this works.
At what point do I create a pull request for the theme? I think it'd be nice to have the directory numbers officially reserved so they wouldn't have to change if somebody else wants a new directory (I probably won't need to touch those files again as far as the theme is concerned)
Thank you again
Edit:
It looks like I will just use a really high index (one not likely to be reserved) and change it to the lowest non-allocated number when the theme is actually complete.