Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [sir_richard] 48475: [KERNEL32]: While working on the CMAKE branch, Amine and myself discovered a rather serious issue in kernel32 (and perhaps other libraries as well). Unlike rbuild, CMake does not allow you to export non-existant DLL functions (try it: add "poopyhead" in kernel32's exports under RBuild, and will it export "poopyhead", God knowing what that will actually link to). As an additional feature on top of the "allow non-existing functions to be exported" "feature", beca

[Timo Kreuzer]

[e-mail] wrote:
> Author: sir_richard
> Date: Sat Aug  7 05:02:58 2010
> New Revision: 48475
>
> URL: http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos?rev=48475&view=rev
> Log:
> [KERNEL32]: While working on the CMAKE branch, Amine and myself discovered a rather serious issue in kernel32 (and perhaps other libraries as well).

I'm sure noone else could have discovered this issue before. cmake was
the key! ;-)
> Unlike rbuild, CMake does not allow you to export non-existant DLL functions (try it: add "poopyhead" in kernel32's exports under RBuild, and will it export "poopyhead", God knowing what that will actually link to).

That's an undocumented rbuild feature, called api-out-of-thin-air. To
understand how it works, you must study quantum chaos theory.
> there already exists a function for: *RtlSetLastNtStatusFromWin32Error*.

I see, with cmake, this feature works on ntdll as well ;-p

Regards,
Timo

PS: build is broken.