RE: [ros-dev] DLL registration during setup: new rbuild task?

[Casper Hornstrup]

>   -----Original Message-----
>  From: ros-dev-bounces(a)reactos.org [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Ge
> van Geldorp
>  Sent: 20. november 2005 23:18
>  To: 'ReactOS Development List'
>  Subject: [ros-dev] DLL registration during setup: new rbuild task?
>  
>  
>  That means we'll need an .inf file to describe which DLLs need to be
>  registered. Windows has a syssetup.inf file for this, with a
>  [OleControlDlls] section listing the DLLs to register/install. We can of
>  course manually maintain a syssetup.inf file in bootdata, but this means one
>  more file to keep up to date when you add a module. So I was thinking, maybe
>  we could add an 'autoregister="R"' (indicating setup should call
>  DllRegisterServer(), "I" to indicate it should call DllInstall() and
> "B" to
>  indicate it should call both) attribute to <module> in the .xml file. Then
>  rbuild should be able to automatically generate a syssetup.inf file. We
>  could go one step further and also generate the
>  bootdata/packages/reactos.dff file in a similar way.
>  
>  So, does this sound like the correct approach? If so, would anyone be
>  interested in implementing the rbuild side of things? I can take care of the
>  stuff that needs to be done during setup, but I've never worked on rbuild
>  before.
>  
>  Gé van Geldorp. 
The values of autoregister should be more self-explaining.

I can implement this in rbuild.

Casper