Re: [ros-dev] Why so small?

[Justin Haygood]

No. ATL and MFC is in Visual Studio only

On 4/2/07, Anders Bergh <anders(a)andersman.org> wrote:
>  
>  I could be wrong of course, but isn't MFC available in VC++ 2005
>  Express, which is free?
>
>  On 4/2/07, Wesley Parish <wes.parish(a)paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> >   On Monday 02 April 2007 06:40, Jason Ward wrote:
> >  > Ok I want to start developing for reactos. I will use NASM. Not C/C++.
> >  >
> >  > So how do I start? do you send me a list of things you want done and 
>  then I
> >   > do them?
> >  > It would take me too long to go through all the source code so I 
>  figured
> >   > that I could just write
> >  > whatever you ask me to.
> >  >
> >  > I am a Com Sci undergraduate. I can program in RosAsm so I shouldn't 
> have
> >   > too much trouble converting to NASM. I can
> > read C++. I can program in
> >  > python, some basic, pascal. And I am learning Java in University.
> >  >
> >  > I have next to no knowledge of the win32api. I know quite a bit of 
>  OpenGL
> > >   though.
> >  First things first, get yourself a copy of theForger's Tutorial:
> >  http://www.winprog.org/tutorial/
> >  Then a copy of Petzold's "Programming Windows".  It will give you a 
> start in
> >   understanding the Win32 API, which is nothing
> > like the POSIX API.
> >
> >  Ignore books like "Windows 2000 Developer's Guide" and so - they tend to
>  be
> >   MFC-heavy and Win32 API-light.  MFC's only
> > useful if you're intending to 
>  do
> >   serious Windows applications development, and so,
> > it's useless for an MS
> >  Windows-class operating system project like ReactOS.  And besides, MFC's 
>  only
> >   available for people who pay the big bucks for
> > Visual Studio - it's
> >  Microsoft's proprietary extensions built on top of the Win32 API.
> >
> >  To get your head around the ReactOS kernel, you should take a look at 
>  Gary
> >   Nebbett's "Windows NT/2000 Native API
> > Reference".  Russinovich and
> >  Solomon's "Windows Internals" is a good start to get your head around
>  the MS
> >   WinNT structure/architecture - it used to be
> > "Inside Windows 
>  [NT|2000|etc]".
> >  
> >  Hope this helps.
> >
> >  Wesley Parish
> > >   No Directx knowledge. 
> >  --
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