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

[Albert Lee]

I also sent this to the other interested applicant:

http://source.winehq.org/source/tools/wrc/ (part of Wine) is a LGPL
implementation of a Windows resource compiler, and
http://code.google.com/p/rescle/ is a BSD licenced resource editor.
You are welcome to use these implementations (the BSD licence is
preferred since that does not require us to carry a separate licence
file for the code). The PE format is well documented.

-Albert

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Gordon Ross <gordon.w.ross at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
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