RE: [ros-dev] Reactos Dev Help

[Casper Hornstrup]

>   -----Original Message-----
>  From: ros-dev-bounces(a)reactos.com 
>  [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Thomas Larsen
>  Sent: 8. december 2004 09:54
>  To: ReactOS Development List
>  Subject: [ros-dev] Reactos Dev Help
>  
>  Reactos4s Bootcd Just wondering why those files are not 
>  include because many apps depends on them and they are made?
>   
>  olepro32.dll
>  oledlg.dll
>  odbc32.dll 
Submit a patch that will do this, then they will be included in
the next release.

>   
>  Is it necessary to apply files in patches when you made a 
>  whole dynamic link file? 
Please elaborate on that

>   My mind lay on inetcfg.dll and other files witch only
> are 
>  ugly stubs in Reactos CVS. 
What is ugly about them?

>   
>  Is there a tool to do the diff-patch job anyone can recommend? 
GNU diff and GNU patch

>   
>  Who are able to get CVS Write Access and how? 
When you have made a series of non-trivial patches, you may apply
for CVS access.

>   Reactos identify itself as some old Windows Version
> but if 
>  any apps should be able to run it should be at least Windows 
>  2000 know about
>   
There is a reason the applications wants a newer OS. They need some
APIs only available on newer OS versions. To support APIs of multiple
OS versions concurrently, ReactOS needs an Application Compatibility
System like Windows has.

>   My last question is
>  
>  I start and application but if the application gets missing 
>  exports lets say NTDLL.RtlAlloc The Reactos Gets very 
>  unstable I know windows do some other things when a exports 
>  missing it shows and dialog saying either NTDLL.DLL is 
>  missing or the Function NTDLL.RtlAlloc is missing and then 
>  terminate the application..
>  
>  If any have a solution about where I should solve the problem 
>  or got some patch to do it I would be very happyJ 
Use an older version of GNU binutils to build ReactOS.

Casper