Re: First NT6+ application support in ReactOS
7th Element <[email protected]>
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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 <[email protected]> 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 > [email protected] > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev > _______________________________________________ Ros-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev