[illumos-Developer] [GSoC] Win. message DLL compiler

[Gordon Ross]

We have one person interested in working on it.

I don't have much detail to offer yet.  Here's what I have:

The DLL format is published, and there are some open source
implementations of supersets of what we need (i.e. GNU bintutils
support for creating real DLLs). I don’t have the links to these things
handy right now, and will need to do some searching.  Albert Lee
had some pointers too, I think.  (from the Wine project?)

The format, as I recall, is a two level structure, with a “file header part”
somewhat similar to traditional COFF, and a collection of section header
parts, most of which are optional.  The only section type needed for this
project is a “resource” section, which looks like a string table.

So for the moment, let’s say part of the project is the search effort to
find the specifications defining this format, and then implementation of
just enough of this format to take a Unix-style “messages” text file and
“compile” it into a messages DLL containing only a “resource” section.

Hope that’s enough for now.

Thanks,
Gordon

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 1:24 PM, fd df <littlehorse1880 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, all.
> Did anybody applied to this project?
> I have 2 year exp in windows programming using C.
> Know how to make a DLL in windows platform.
> Could someone give me some more info on this project?
> Thanks for your time.
> -Liyn