Re: Clarification regarding clean room guidelines and headers / prototypes

Fabian Maurer <[email protected]> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Not sure who, apart from Alexandre, could help here, but I wanted to ask for
> some clarification on the clean room guidelines (https://gitlab.winehq.org/
> wine/wine/-/wikis/Clean-Room-Guidelines)
>
> Let's say we want to add a few new COM classes / interfaces from WinRT for
> some program. What is the official way to get those header definitions? Copy
> paste from the official SDK?

You can look at the headers but you can't copy/paste them wholesale.

> Or worse, there is some windows adjacent dlls that only contain typelibs - can
> we decompile those typelibs to get the COM interface definitions?

Again, you can look at some specific definitions, but you can't use the
decompiled typelib directly.

> Or how about undocumented functions that are documented by third parties? ROS
> is off limits, all others as well? There are for example C# projects that
> provide P/Invoke definitions of otherwise undocumented functions.

You can look for some hints about undocumented functions, but the right
way is to write test cases.

-- 
Alexandre Julliard
[email protected]