Am 27.03.2013 10:07, schrieb Marco van de Voort:
In our previous episode, Sven Barth said:
Does Metro btw make a difference between the visual, language and system
libraries? (like GDI/MSVCRT/win32 in Win32/64)
I've not looked at this in detail, but AFAIK you only have certain
libraries and functions available and it will be checked by the Windows
store and the OS that you don't load anything else that you shouldn't
load... (you don't even have full access to the filesystem :( ). That's
why a complete new OS port would be necessary to support WinRT...
That's what I heard too, and in addition that most functionality is exposed
as (COM) interfaces. But I haven't seen more detail. I hoped for an article
in the C'T about it, but either I missed it, or there hasn't been.
Some of the low level API functions are available (but only selected
ones) and then there are the COM APIs. Seeing that our support for COM
has matured in 2.6 a WinRT port should be doable, but one would need (a)
time and (b) a Windows 8 system. I don't have either (the latter mostly,
because my university has not yet managed to provide free versions... -.-).
Regards,
Sven
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