Re: [ros-dev] ReactOS official compatibility target and the new build system

[Jérôme Gardou]

Imagine an even worse written application :
fptr = GetProcAdress(hDll, "SomeVistaExport");
if(fptr)
     Vista = TRUE;

I know at least one application that does it, and this is... wine tests!

Le 13/11/2010 19:41, Colin Finck a écrit :
>  
>  Ged Murphy <gedmurphy(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >   Usermode should and does report as NT5.2.
> >  It actually doesn't have a choice as the APIs which you use in usermode
> >  to discover the version (GetVersionEx, VerifyVersionInfo) actually query
> >  hardcoded values stored in the kernel. 
>  Sure, but you don't consider the example I've given (VMware Tools 
>  Installer).
>  We were already reporting ReactOS as NT 5.2 at that time, but 
>  obviously the installer just queried the msvcrt.dll version to 
>  determine its features. And when finding out that it's 42.4.0.0, it 
>  consequently expected Vista features we were missing.
>
>  What I want to say is that we cannot just report ReactOS as NT 5.2 
>  through the common version functions, but also need to ensure that the 
>  DLLs have the same versions as their NT 5.2 counterparts.
>  And when this has been changed, adding APIs of newer Windows versions 
>  (like wcsncpy_s) would hardly make any sense if we don't need them to 
>  please some Wine-synced DLLs using newer APIs.
>
>
>  Colin
>
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