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[Jan]

hi, my name is jan, i'm from spain. I'm a vc++ programmer and i want to 
help. Any sugestions about how to start?
jan

[Emanuele Aliberti]

Jan wrote:
> hi, my name is jan, i'm from spain. I'm a vc++ programmer and i want 
> to help. Any sugestions about how to start?
> jan

Hi Jan,

get nasm+mingw+make
install them (have their binaries in your preferred shell's path, or 
write a script to add them)
get a subversion client
get the sources (from the command line: svn co 
svn://svn.reactos.com/trunk/reactos )
(details here http://reactos.com/wiki )

If you are a general purpose programmer, try running your preferred 
Windows program under ros and, if it fails, catch the bug in our code 
and fix it, if you can (If you can't, use Bugzilla). That's a nice game, 
but sometimes it requires a lot of energy (hint: begin with simple 
programs). If you are skilled in a special area (the MMU is my home... I 
invented X/11...) well browse the code you like more and challenge yourself.

As Ge says, we make it for fun. Have fun coding!
-- 
:Emanuele Aliberti