Griffiths, Jonathon writes:
> Hi,
>
> I've starting wine hacking as of a week ago, and after looking around the
> tree, I *think* I trust myself to work on increasing the number of crtdll
> functions implemented. If there is anyone out there who is working on this
> DLL please let me know so we don't overlap!
>
> I'll try to produce some documentation as well; its a fairly steep learning
> curve so far :-) My experience is somewhat against me, since most of the
> coding Ive done on Win32 has been convincing *nix programs to build under it
> (more on this later wrt some hacks that wont work under wine AFAIK).
>
> I've already implemented a few simpler functions and will be testing them
> shortly. I have a couple of questions though:
>
> -The number of implemented functions is quite small - does this mean that
> most people (including winelib users) are using the M$ version of this DLL?
>
> -Does anyone know of a good test suite/app with source for testing crt
> functions? Or, if I produce a testharness should it be booked in as a
> sample/tool?
>
> -Are there any other issues I should be aware of that leap out at anyone?
Hallo,
my personal believe is that it doesn't make much sense to work more on
CRTDLL.
Here are some reasons for my believe:
- CRTDLL is hugh with a lot of (unclean and undocumented) entries
- Native CRTDLL seems abandoned by Microsoft and the MingW people said
that CRTDLL has problems with threads. Most newer programs use MSVCRT,
so we would have to implement MSVCRT too
- Native CRTDLL doesn't implement low level functionality directly but
uses Kernel for that functionality. So it is save to use native crtdll
under Wine
- Native CRTDLL should be distributed with most programs that use it,
so programs needing it would come with it.
I once started a discussion about that subject on wine-devel, but
there was no definite outcome.
I vote for switching the default use in wine from "builtin" to
"native".
PS: Don't let your activity be stopped by my rantings...
Bye
Uwe Bonnes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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