Wow,

Awesome work!!!
Keep up the good work and give us more news like this!

BR,
Peter

> On 10 Jan 2018, at 11:05, Colin Finck <colin@reactos.org> wrote:
>
> Hi all!
>
> Starting with build 0.4.8-dev-655-g63a3a2c, ReactOS has first support
> for NT6+ applications (aka programs written for Windows Vista, Windows
> 7, etc.). Please retest such applications under ReactOS!
>
> As newer Windows APIs are still missing in ReactOS, I would be surprised
> if a high number of NT6+ applications suddenly works.
> However, many applications may just be compiled by a new Visual Studio
> without using any modern APIs. They could work now.
>
> My "Hello World" compiled by VS 2017 v141 toolchain printed many
> messages about missing apiset DLLs in the debug log, but otherwise works
> well. So the next step should obviously be finishing and integrating
> Mark's work on the apiset DLLs in
> https://github.com/learn-more/reactos/commits/apisets
> But interestingly, the build produced by the v141_xp toolchain also
> looks for these apiset DLLs. Therefore, it would be possible that an
> application expects a full NT6 system when finding them. Consequently,
> application compatibility could be compromised if we just dump all
> apiset DLLs into ReactOS, applications now expect NT6, but the OS
> continues to behave like NT5 by default.
>
> This is why I suggest detecting an NT6+ application in ntdll to have it
> auto-apply a shim that lets ReactOS behave like an NT6 OS. The apiset
> DLLs should only be available in this mode, but not for the NT5
> personality of ReactOS. Let's not import the apisets before the ntdll
> shim work is done in order to preserve our existing application
> compatibility.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Colin
>
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