[ros-dev] Introduction & request for help

[Senthil Kumar]

Steven & Ged,

Thanks for the tips. I will soon drop in the IRC channel.

Senthil

--- Steven Edwards <winehacker at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 2:57 AM, gedmurphy <gedmurphy at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have so far pulled the source and built it. I decided to target the
> > successful run of Office 2003 on reactos as my goal. (I have no idea how
> > realistic this goal is, and perhaps it already runs successfully ?).
> >
> > At this point, I need some pointers on how to go about the job. I have
> seen
> > hints that I need to take the code over from wine into reactos etc.
> > Do I need to run wine in debug mode and see all the win-api calls that
> > happen
> > and port those calls from wine into react-os ?
> >
> > Is there a hand-holding documents which describes this ?
> 
> Not really, you need to get to know the MSI and RPC source code. I
> expect most of the remaining bugs blocking installation fall in to
> either a kernel issue related to the Mm and Cc overhaul or given some
> of the recent crash reports, the ReactOS RPC server might not be
> playing nice with Wine's implementation of DCOM. DCOM is black magic
> to me, so I highly suggest targeting the Wine regression tests for
> ole32, msi and friends first, get all of the winetests passing on
> ReactOS and then try to install Office 2003. You are going to need to
> bruteforce it and just focus on fixing one api failure in the tests at
> a time. Keep in mind the Wine test code and implementation for these
> dlls is mostly sane as the current WineAPI failure rate for win2003 is
> only 8% so your most likely going to be fixing bugs at a much lower
> level in ReactOS code. If you find a real bug in Wine, talk to us on
> IRC before submitting patches to Wine.
> 
> -- 
> Steven Edwards
> 
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