Copying Windows DLLs might fail (never tried this).
The Design-subforum is probably what you are looking for.

Hello "R", I can´t speak for the ReactOS team, but as you built ReactOS from the sources there hardly can be any infections -- assuming your build-machine is clean. So common sense clearly tells these must be false positives. I assume some scanners report malware, because some "Microsoft system file...

Hello Creeper,

what version of RosBE do you use and what is the exact problem please?
I also had some minor troubles building the first time (viewtopic.php?t=19794), but in the mean-time RosBE 2.2 got released. Maybe this solves your problem-

gonzoMD wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 18, 2020 6:16 pm

No. Without N is correct.

As a native German inhabitant I can confirm this.

Thank you to you too, MadWolf, Maybe your suggestion helps another user. I am with 2.1.2 now. All I had to do:
* patch make.tar.bz2
* disable PCH

I am sorry, this was German humor. From now on I will stick to German correctness again.

Wonderful, thank you very much, ThFabba!
I was already installing older versions of GCC, but your advice solved the problem immediately. ROSBE has been built, ATM ROS compiles...

Good evening. Having had no luck building ROS at ReactOS and Windows I tried to build ROSBE at Linux (being a beekeeping hobbyist). RosBE-Builder.sh failed however with the following error in the build.log glob.c:(.text+0x2c1): undefined reference to `__alloca' Google-search brought up an entry at J...

Consider using a virtual machine like VirtualBox for evaluation if you do not own some old, spare hardware. VirtualBox is free and simple, and you avoid risking your main installation.

Windows 10 is not something completely alien. It is based on NT-concepts and supports the "old" Windows APIs. Lots of modern software for end-users does not need more than the "old" functionality, and so it is no surprise that lots of modern software works on ReactOS.
EPIC WIN!

So IF ReactOS were to get a package manager, it shouldn't download dependency files and drop them into random system folders. They should be put straight where the application is. I think you don't have to worry. Both Windows and most applications are designed to work your preferred way., When I da...

If animated cursors are the most serious trouble, shouldn´t this be celebrated as success?

Hello Peter. even with some applications and RosBE installed my virtual disk is below 2 GB in size. So anything reasonable should be sufficient as long as you don´t want to store huge amounts of data. If you are new then I would recommend the installation of ROS at a virtual-machine like VirtualBox ...

Thank you for the explanations, MadWolf.

As it turned out RApps already provides a 3rd-party package-manager, Npackd, which even seems to work (very slowly), So the suggestion in the OP might already have been.treated satisfactorily.

Chocolatey sounded interesting, but a 2nd look was less appealing. It requires .NET, PowerShell and TLS 1.2+. In order to use the online-installer you have to register. There exists an offline-installer too, but the instructions looked a bit messy. And they already discontinue support for W7 and W20...