Re: [ros-dev] more sharing with Wine?

[Jakob Eriksson]

Thomas Weidenmueller wrote:

>   Eric Kohl wrote:
>
> >   Non-portable DLLs are not portable because they
> > use features that 
> >  differ between ReactOS and Wine. Examples are kernel32.dll because 
> >  consoles are implemented in different ways, gdi32.dll and user32.dll 
> >  because the use the INT2E interface to call into win32k.sys. 
>
>  Especially the Int2E thing _could_ be solved if wine agreed on 
>  co-operation. Basically all we'd need is a shared interface for 
>  NtUser/NtGdi entry points. while wine's user32/gdi32 would call local 
>  NtUser/NtGdi stubs that connect to the wine server, reactos would 
>  inline the function and do actual syscalls. it would be doable but 
>  that'd require quite some changes in the wine code - and i believe 
>  wine doesn't want to do that for the sake of execution speed...
>  
How could that possibly be slower?

AFAIK it could be a set of macros, different for Wine and ReactOS.

regards,
Jakob