Hi,
I promised a new testing/development environment but unfortunately I cannot
pursue my work because nobody has been able to fix rbuild to my
requirements. If anyone does want to see the standardized environment I
promised, please prod your local ReactOS developer for the following
features:
1) *Working* ROS_INTERMEDIATE and ROS_OUTPUT directories. They are
broken in many ways:
a. Don't work with relative pats.
b. Don't work at all for .pch files and/or compilation units.
c. Create other sorts of unpredictable errors due to hard-coded
strings/directories in makefiles or rbuild.
2) ROS_TOOLS_DIRECTORY. The ability for the tools to be outside the
ROS_OUTPUT directory, such as in c:\rosde\tools. Someone committed such a
patch but it was reverted without a newer version/fix.
a. Also requires making rbuild check if the binaries are present, and
if so, NOT to rebuild them.
b. Create -forcetools switch to rbuild which would force it to bypass
the check in 2a.
3) Tools must be built and work with the -O3 optimization setting.
Of course, I won't go into the fact that my request for the other rbuild
features such as a graphical dependency map have gone unanswered. Many
thanks to those who _have_ worked on some of the MSVC features/bugfixes I
brought forward and do the small attempt at a depmap.
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Best regards,
Alex Ionescu
Project Lead, TinyKRNL
Kernel-Mode Software Design Engineer, ReactOS
