errr... sorry, but.... ReactOS is still barely installable on Real Hardware, with (i would say) a great lack on driver support... and you´re thinking about NT6+???
Yes, its good news, no doubt about it! but... is it a priority? Now you can ban me if you wish :P On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 11:01 AM, 7th Element <7elem...@mail.bg> wrote: > Wow, > > Awesome work!!! > Keep up the good work and give us more news like this! > > BR, > Peter > > > On 10 Jan 2018, at 11:05, Colin Finck <co...@reactos.org> wrote: > > > > Hi all! > > > > Starting with build 0.4.8-dev-655-g63a3a2c, ReactOS has first support > > for NT6+ applications (aka programs written for Windows Vista, Windows > > 7, etc.). Please retest such applications under ReactOS! > > > > As newer Windows APIs are still missing in ReactOS, I would be surprised > > if a high number of NT6+ applications suddenly works. > > However, many applications may just be compiled by a new Visual Studio > > without using any modern APIs. They could work now. > > > > My "Hello World" compiled by VS 2017 v141 toolchain printed many > > messages about missing apiset DLLs in the debug log, but otherwise works > > well. So the next step should obviously be finishing and integrating > > Mark's work on the apiset DLLs in > > https://github.com/learn-more/reactos/commits/apisets > > But interestingly, the build produced by the v141_xp toolchain also > > looks for these apiset DLLs. Therefore, it would be possible that an > > application expects a full NT6 system when finding them. Consequently, > > application compatibility could be compromised if we just dump all > > apiset DLLs into ReactOS, applications now expect NT6, but the OS > > continues to behave like NT5 by default. > > > > This is why I suggest detecting an NT6+ application in ntdll to have it > > auto-apply a shim that lets ReactOS behave like an NT6 OS. The apiset > > DLLs should only be available in this mode, but not for the NT5 > > personality of ReactOS. Let's not import the apisets before the ntdll > > shim work is done in order to preserve our existing application > > compatibility. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > Colin > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ros-dev mailing list > > Ros-dev@reactos.org > > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ros-dev mailing list > Ros-dev@reactos.org > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev >
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