Inability to work on RosDE/TE - Ros-dev

25 Mar 2007

Hi,

I promised a new testing/development environment but unfortunately I cannot
pursue my work because nobody has been able to fix rbuild to my
requirements. If  anyone does want to see the standardized environment I
promised, please prod your local ReactOS developer for the following
features:

1)      *Working* ROS_INTERMEDIATE and ROS_OUTPUT directories. They are
broken in many ways:

a.       Don't work with relative pats.

b.      Don't work at all for .pch files and/or compilation units.

c.       Create other sorts of unpredictable errors due to hard-coded
strings/directories in makefiles or rbuild.

2)      ROS_TOOLS_DIRECTORY. The ability for the tools to be outside the
ROS_OUTPUT directory, such as in c:\rosde\tools. Someone committed such a
patch but it was reverted without a newer version/fix.

a.       Also requires making rbuild check if the binaries are present, and
if so, NOT to rebuild them.

b.      Create -forcetools switch to rbuild which would force it to bypass
the check in 2a.

3)      Tools must be built and work with the -O3 optimization setting.

Of course, I won't go into the fact that my request for the other rbuild
features such as a graphical dependency map have gone unanswered. Many
thanks to those who _have_ worked on some of the MSVC features/bugfixes I
brought forward and do the small attempt at a depmap.

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Best regards,

Alex Ionescu

Project Lead, TinyKRNL

Kernel-Mode Software Design Engineer, ReactOS