Microsoft already provide similar technology known as virtual dlls. It was a technology designed for MinWin.
They split functionality of dlls into ‘api sets’ These can be seen in Win 7 in the system32 dir with the prefix ‘api-ms-win-core--<num of>-1-0.dll’. WinMin components link against these virtual dlls which load up the real libs listed in apisetschema.dll. However this involves modification to the loader. On 13 November 2010 11:16, Timo Kreuzer <timo.kreu...@web.de> wrote: > > I have thought about the multiple Windows version thing some time ago > and had some ideas. > One idea is to Reorganize the functionality, similar to the way it's > done in Windows 7. > some of the win32 dlls would become wrapper dlls and forwarding to the > actual implementations. These wrapper dlls would be tiny and we could > have different sets of wrapper dlls for different windows versions. They > might also forward to different implementations of the same api on > different versions if required. This could be done on runtime, with > something similar to sxs, only user configurable rather than manifest > based. > > So instead of importing the vista function RegDeleteTree from > kernel32.dll a wine dll would import it from something like > API-ROS-Core-Registry.dll > > This way we could as well cleanup our dependency tree and layout stuff > more window 7 alike > > > _______________________________________________ > Ros-dev mailing list > Ros-dev@reactos.org > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev >
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