Re: Windows API database / map

[Dan Kegel]

Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> Ordering should be done by the following criteria:
> - If A depends on B, but B does not depend on A, A must appear
> higher than B.
> - If rule 1 did not resolve relative order, and A has more modules
> dependant on it than B, A must appear higher.
> - If neither rules resolved the order, make it arbitrary.
>
> These two criteria make sure that the matrix is triangle shaped unless 
> there's a circular dependancy. Also, these rules make sure that modules 
> that depend on other modules and are heavily linked to, such as 
> kernel32, are higher up than modules that depend on no other modules and 
> are not linked to, such as actxprxy.
>
> If you want, I can write some perl to create such a table from the 
> available information.

Also, get rid of the dups.  Here's an example:

#   c:\windows\system32/rsaenh.dll imports:
advapi32.dll
advapi32.dll
kernel32.dll
kernel32.dll
msvcrt.dll
msvcrt.dll
mswsock.dll
ntdll.dll
user32.dll
user32.dll
ws2_32.dll

- Dan