RE: Stub implementation of CABINET.DLL

[Patrik Stridvall]

> On Friday 15 November 2002 12:47 pm, Patrik Stridvall wrote:
> > Now that we have the permission to use cabextract
> > under the LGPL it would be useful to have stubs
> > for CABINET.DLL so intrested people can work
> > with implementing it with fewer "infrastructure"
> > problems.

[snip]
> Anyone working on this?  If not I'd be glad to take it on, 
> seems like it 
> should be easy.

I personally doesn't currently have that much time to work with it.

However, when I saw that not much happend despite
getting code from cabextrect under LGPL I thought
that perhaps people were having trouble on how
to create a new DLL in Wine and how to extract
the declarations from the Microsoft header without
creating a derived work. I have done it many
times before so thought why not do it...

So I very happy that somebody is intrested in continuing.

PS. If anybody have some other DLL that they wish to implement
but don't now how to do it, don't hesitate to ask me to
create a stub DLL with related headers.

Stub implementation of CABINET.DLL

[Greg Turner]

On Saturday 16 November 2002 03:17 am, Patrik Stridvall wrote:
> So I very happy that somebody is intrested in continuing.

my pleasure... but I do reserve the right to take my time about it :)

My personal wine TODO list looks something like this, in no particular 
order:

o _ismb* work
o convert rpcss to unicode & create some *W functions in rpcrt4
o implement rpcrt4.RpcServerUnRegisterIf
o RPC roll-up patch for ReWind
o CABINET.DLL
o try to figure out some exception handling snafu's
o lots of RPC data marshalling
o touch base with the Samba dev's re: rpcss
o unit tests for rpcrt4/rpcss
o anything else I've volunteered myself for :)

Also, I have some research projects:

o Learn more about the relationship between dcom & rpc
o Investigate __TRY and family (for rpc macros)
o Learn about C++ and wine

While I'm at it, I have some wild ambitions and fantasies:

o create a wine IDE
o find some way to get tkWineConfig into wine, or port it to C.
o enhance machine emulation in wine until it's platform-independant.

Hm... something tells me I won't be getting to the wild ambitions and 
fantasies department anytime soon :(