RE: [ros-kernel]ROS and Wine

[Casper H. <ch...@us...>]

tir, 2002-04-23 kl. 19:28 skrev Mike Shepherd:
> Yeah, I'd much rather duplicate what NT does but it just looked like
> a much bigger job.  Having looked at the code more extensively I can
> see that there's more there than I had thought.  Hopefully you
> appreciate that as a newbie poster it's useful to hear why design
> decisions made before my involvement were made!

Yes, we should be writing more docs about such issues ;o)

> 
> > > 
> > > Implementation ideas :-
> > > 
> > > 	- Remove the current user32.dll code and associated code in
> > > 	  win32k.sys etc. and replace with the relevant code from
> > > 	  Wine.
> > 
> > This is not just a copy/paste job, so why bother? Using WINE for
> > something as low-level as the window manager puts restrictions on the
> > design of the ReactOS window manager. If I had to choose, I would much
> > rather spend the time needed for adapting the WINE code for 
> > ReactOS, on
> > designing the window manager code properly - even if it takes longer.
> > Sure we can learn from the WINE implementation, but using its 
> > design is
> > IMO not worth it.
> 
> Fair enough.  I think the Wine USER code could be ported fairly quickly
> but I do agree that an NT like implementation would be more efficient
> and probably the longer term solution.

I guess that some of the WINE code that use GDI APIs (but not WINE
specific APIs) could be easily modified for ReactOS.

> 
> > We can use WINE modules that only use the Win32 API without 
> > any need to
> > make changes specific to ReactOS. If we can agree with the 
> > WINE project
> > to use the same headers, ReactOS developers can develop on the shared
> > modules with less of a risk of breaking something for the WINE
> > developers (and vice-versa).
> 
> Definitely.  It does look like things like comctl32.dll could be
> taken almost directly from Wine (assuming, as you say, uniform use
> of header files).

Yes, comctl32.dll is one of the many DLLs that can be written to
exclusively use the Win32 API.