On 4/29/05, Bogusław Brandys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Alch wrote: > >>On 4/28/05, eleftherios stavridis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>>We have decided not to choose the convenient option of using these > >>>proprietary tools. Instead, we have hired a developer and created a > >>>small side-project, called Celery, which will enhance the MinGW DDK > >>>(yes, there is a free/open source alternative to Microsoft DDK) for > >>>driver compilation/development. In short, the goals we set are to > >>>merge SEH support to GCC, fix "-mtrd" flag (have the patch), do a > >>>review/testing of a free IFS kit, and extend GCC to emit PDB files. > >>>The project's website will be online in 2 days. > >> > >>I checked this out - can somebody please point me to anywhere > >>on the net where there is any information about a MinGW DDK. > >>I checked out the ReactOS homepage and it clearly states: > >> > >>-------------- > >>At the time of writing, no equivalent of the build utility > >>from the Windows DDK exists. ReactOS may migrate to such an > >>equivalent when and if it's available, but it's highly unlikely. > >>-------------- > >> > >>If someone has more luck finding information about open > >>source driver development using MinGW without linking to the > >>official DDK (or using there headers) then I will be happy. > > > > > > Linking to DDK should not be a problem as it is freely available form > > Microsoft > > > > > >>>Last, there is a perfectly working GUI for ClamAV on > >> > >>Windows, written > >> > >>>in Python. You can find it at http://www.clamwin.org. > >> > >>There is numerous bugs in clamwin (like it not being able to > >>detect viruses that clamav has detected for a long time) - I > >>doubt that anything else than the gui will be usable in > >>future version. > > > > > > Clamwin uses command line tools form clamav - clamscan and freshclam on > > cygwin layer. Hence it cannot be much different form clamav. > > > > > >>Also for doing any serious Windows development (like creating > >>a exchange plugin) one must enhance the system management > >>console and I highly doubt that this can be done with PyGTK > >>(Qt, Flex, your mothers open source graphic library). For my > >>part I will not go through a ton of trubles for creating code > >>that compiles with some obscure open source setup if it can > >>be done easier from within visual studio - the code will > >>still be open source even it is crafted within VS and i > >>highly doubt that the casual Windows user cares where I compiled it. > > > > > > Clamwin uses wxWidgets and natiwe Win32API in python - and you can do > > pretty much everything you need in application development for Windows. > > > > > >>For Clam to succed on windows a nativ service must be written > >>that uses libclamav (like clamd on Unix) - so my first > >>priority this weekend will be to check the state of current > >>libclamav for windows and see if a high performance Windows > >>service can be written - gui and other stuff can come later. > > > > > > I do have a working version of the file system filter driver in testing. > > What is needed is the native Win32 service which links with libclamav. > > Number fo people volunteered to do that with Boguslaw's port but sadly > > noone has been persistent enough. I simply have not enough time to do > > it myself. So my suggestion is to consolidate forces and have on-access > > scanning in windows sooner together. However I am not trying to insist > > here - GPL sais it all. > > Alch, > > I agree with you.I have started clamd NT service (simplified).I will try > to upload current version (very,very early alfa) to ClamAV CVS > clamav-win32,but I think ,you should also publish your filter driver > sources. > Currently I have also not enough time but in late May I'll have probably > more spare time.
I have some time this weekend and next week (got some vacation) - so just put your source online and I will check it out and give you some feedback. (if it has some obscure compilation requirements, then please post these also). Lets all put code were our mouth is, then we can quickly have something that works. Regards. Lars Roland
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