rpcrt4 and rpcss with WINE and ReactOS

[Steven Edwards]

Hey Greg,
--- "Gregory M. Turner" <gmturner007 at ameritech.net> wrote:
> Wine doesn't have LPC per se.  If ReactOS does, I'd love to see their
> 
> implementation and talk to you all about stealing it :)

http://cvs.reactos.com/cvsweb.cgi/reactos/ntoskrnl/lpc/

> Uhh... so in answer to your question, rpcrt4 and rpcss are designed
> to work 
> together, and shouldn't have too many ugly dependencies (except that
> rpcrt4 
> has some ole32 deps for its ndr implementation).  For the most part,
> they 
> only use high-level Windows-y stuff found in kernel32; there may be a
> few 
> unixisms/wineisms, of course, but compared to other dlls these should
> be 
> trivial.

Yes there are a few but maybe Casper and I can get these cleaned before
we branch.

> My advice: just run the code and see what happens.  So long as ROS
> has working 
> named-pipes, and a few other kernel essentials like critical
> sections, string 
> atoms, etc, it ought to "just work", deficiencies and all.  Just test
> with 
> "/Oi" midl-generated code, and stick to the supported transports
> (lpc, 
> ironically, or named pipes), or you will get no love.  AFAIK, the
> only snag 
> you may encounter is if your ole diverges from that of wine.. if that

We really dont want to diverge at all. I have tested hacked binarys
under ReactOS and its seemed to work fine but that his been running
only simple apps that depended on rpcrt4 and ole32. 

Thanks for your help. It doesnt sound like we will have a problem at
all.

Thanks
Steven


__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing.
http://photos.yahoo.com/