Re: [ros-dev] Why so small?

[Samuel serapion]

Isn't it available through the windows sdk (PSDK) ? A free download.

On 4/2/07, Justin Haygood <jhaygood(a)spsu.edu> wrote:
>   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. 
> > >  --
> > >  Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish
> > >  -----
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> > >  You ask, what is the most important thing?
> > >  Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata.
> > >  I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
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Samuel Serapión Vega
Computer Engineering, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico.