[ros-dev] Re: Collection of wine tools on windows

[Steven Edwards]

Hi Boaz,

--- Boaz Harrosh <boaz(a)hishome.net> wrote:
>   1) MinGW header-set are Evil - Because they are ugly,
> with this, no 
>  variables names, and all this style for machines guide. This I already 
>  carry for 10 years so here it is off my chest. 
Yes they are evil. Alex and I were discussing this at LinuxWorld. Nothing would please me
more
than to see ReactOS use the Wine headers.

>     The windres utility is insufficient for Most of the
> projects out 
>  there. For example one reason my project is not already on the air. (And 
>  hence my post) is that it refuses to compile my Toolbar resource tag. 
>  (And what is an MFC app with out a toolbar).
>    I have seen some work done on porting wrc to PE is that work done and 
>  will you have a pre-compiled binary package for use to use on 
>  windows/ReactOS. Same applies to widl. ReactOS should adopt all these 
>  Wine tools as part of their regular tools portfolio. MinGW should adopt 
>  Wine's / ReactOS's leadership on all these technologies and supply-link 
>  to them by default. Go duplicate all these goodies the wine guys are 
>  preparing for us with widl. 
We are importing WRC and WIDL in to the ReactOS build system.

Thanks
Steven



		
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