[coLinux-devel] Re: Mingw patch for CoLinux console/deamon

[Dan A. <da...@co...>]

On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 07:43:24AM -0700, Steven Edwards wrote:
> Hi Dan,
> 
> --- Dan Aloni <da...@co...> wrote:
> > Anyway, as from the 20040411 snapshot, the daemon and console-nt
> > don't 
> > depend on Cygwin, so you can test console-nt to see if it works on
> > ReactOS.
> > 
> > > 2. The user has to go download/install the mxml sources for the
> > > mingw-crosscompiler. Once again its small we could ship this with
> > the
> > > coLinux sources.
> > 
> 
> Cool. I sent test binarys to most of the ReactOS developers that are
> interested in this when I did my port to mingw. Currently we are
> debugging some issues in our named pipes and service control manager
> implemenation. Once this is done CoLinux should just "work". I tested
> loading linux.sys standalone as a boot driver and ReactOS is able to do
> this with no issue so once we have the SCM/Pipe issues worked out I
> thnk we should be able to load vmlinux. I have sent a copy of this
> message to ros-kernel to try and get a few more developers interested
> in kicking out the SCM/Pipe issues.

It's nice to see that coLinux helps to bring ReactOS to completeness.

It will be good if some of the ReactOS developers, especially the kernel 
hackers, could look at the kernel driver's sources and pin-point about 
specific problems. As you may know, we have problems in the SMP area.

    http://www.colinux.org/snapshots

The winnt-dependent kernel code is under src/colinux/os/winnt/kernel,
whereas the os-independent kernel mode is under src/colinux/kernel and
src/colinux/arch.

> > > 5. It links to ws2_32 but I have not tested the networking stuff so
> > we
> > > will have to adapt the rest to use use Winsock but it will still be
> > > faster than using Cygwin->Winsock.
> > 
> > That networking code in the daemon is not that important (used for 
> > debugging).
> 
> who needs a debugger anyway...It may still be a while for ReactOS to
> really show use to the CoLinux team as our networking still has large
> spots that are not connected. Its my hope that in the next few months
> we can plug those holes so that any Linux user that need a Windows
> driver can deploy ReactOS with CoLinux running on top.

Cool. Have you managed to build coLinux using the latest snapshot and
the bunch of scripts I posted?

-- 
Dan Aloni
da...@co...