Wine/ReactOS Co-operation, was Re: [ros-dev] Must Read!!!! Msi.dll and Bison Alert!!!!

[Robert Shearman]

James Tabor wrote:

>   Thomas Weidenmueller wrote:
>
> >   James Tabor wrote:
> >
> > >   With this commit, we will be using bison to build
> > > cond.y and sql.y.
> > >  Okay, for those using a Window 32 based system 8^p you will need
> > >  *bison*! 
> >
> >
> >  I'm totally against that. The project IMO should build with the 
> >  standard build system - i literally hate projects that need this 
> >  tool, that tool, yet another tool, ....
> >
> >  Best Regards
> >  Thomas 
>  Well, tell that to wine. 8^)
>
>
>  This was a hard call to do. Knowing this team.
>
>  Wine is moving away from porting as I can see it. I've written about how
>  wine has cross linked third and forth level dlls (apps level). We can not
>  port w/o having to include some of their weird programming stuff (put 
>  nicely). 

What exactly do you mean by this? What are third and fourth level dlls? 
What is the weird programming stuff you obviously dislike?

>   I've tried wines windows builds and w/o some of
> their dlls you can not 
>  use
>  them at all. You have to bypass ROS Second level dlls with wines. When 
>  you
>  try it, it doesn't work. 

If that is a problem with Wine DLLs then please feel free to submit 
patches for both the callers and callee. Supplying a test case that 
passes on Windows, but doesn't pass on Wine also helps.

Rob