from Hermès BÃLUSCA: > Because I was recently shocked (if I may say :D) that, for building a > 2003-class operating system, we need 2010+ tools, I was wondering whether it > was still possible to build ReactOS with MSVC 2008 and 2005. I\222ve created a > task for that in Jira: http://jira.reactos.org/browse/CORE-8023 . After > application of the configure.cmd patch that I give in the report, plus few > tweaks in two headers (and adding some stdint.h in the correct directory for > MSVC, needed for compiling host-tools, because this file is not included in > default MSVC installation until MSVC 2010+), I was able to build a full > bootcd and livecd (see the details in the abovementioned report, basically > it currently builds with MSVC 2008 but not 2005). However there happens an > interesting thing: the [boot|live]cd boots (freeldr seems to work and load > the kernel and drivers), but after that, the kernel (debugged in WinDbg) > hangs indefinitely here:
> Windows Server 2003 Kernel Version 3790 UP Checked x86 compatible > Built by: 20140326-r62565 > Machine Name: > Kernel base = 0x80400000 PsLoadedModuleList = 0x005fcf88 > System Uptime: not available > (f:\ros_vs_test\ntoskrnl\ke\i386\cpu.c:494) Supported CPU features : KF_V86_VIS KF_RDTSC KF_CR4 KF_CMOV KF_GLOBAL_PAGE KF_LARGE_PAGE KF_MTRR KF_CMPXCHG8B KF_MMX KF_WORKING_PTE KF_PAT KF_FXSR KF_FAST_SYSCALL KF_XMMI KF_XMMI64 KF_NX_BIT > (f:\ros_vs_test\ntoskrnl\ke\i386\cpu.c:801) Prefetch Cache: 64 bytes L2 > Cache: 0 bytes L2 Cache Line: 64 bytes L2 Cache Associativity: 0 > <_hangs_forever_here_> > If some of you have an idea what *might* happen there, I\222m all ears! Now I see why it may be difficult to impossible to build and install ReactOS on my modern (2011 and 2013) hardware with new motherboards. I downloaded and burned ReactOS 0.3.15 ISO install image, but it failed to boot, either on SATA DVD-RW drive or a CD-RW on an older (July 2001) computer. I might be able to build ReactOS with ROSBE on FreeBSD or Linux and install perhaps to USB stick, and find it won't boot. I have old IDE hard drives, 1271 MB and 40 GB, but access them through USB 2.0 enclosure, meaning it's like a USB hard drive to the computer. New hard drives are 3 TB Western Digital Green, GPT-partitioned. I also notice that on this list, and ros-dev, there is a great tendency to post multipart/alternative with HTML attachment as opposed to plain text. Tom
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