On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 05:04:49PM +0200, Lars Roland wrote: > 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.
One can compile basic drivers with MinGW without linking to MS DDK. We are working to improve that. More info on this very soon. > 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. I have to go with Alch's reply on that. > 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. Fair enough. We do care where we compile our software and we will improve MinGW for this job. I wouldn't call MinGW an 'obscure open source setup' though. > 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. The more goodies you come up with the better it is. A very good GUI already exists. Cordially, es _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-devel.html
