1DBus Daemon for Windows CE/Windows Mobile 6.5
2=============================================
3
4Bugs in upstream for any window version:
5* MoveFileExA < 0 result check bug
6* double dbus_free somewhere I forgot where (check in -ugly)
7* alignment issue
8* CreateProcess process information handle leak
9* _dbus_getsid NULL vs INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE
10* win_account_to_sid
11
12Customisation
13=============
14
151) At installation, the following registry value should be set to the
16installation directory of the dbus installation (the directory
17containing the bin, etc, share folders):
18
19HKLM\Software\freedesktop\DBus\Install Directory
20
212) Instead of environment variable DBUS_VERBOSE, use
22HKLM\Software\freedesktop\DBus\Verbose
23
242) The keyring directory is MYDOCUMENTS\dbus-keyrings, not
25HOMEPATH\.dbus-keyrings.
26
27
28Compilation
29===========
30
31./configure --host=arm-mingw32ce CPPFLAGS=-I/path/to/expat/include LDFLAGS=-L/path/to/expat/lib
32
33A recent version of libtool is required, with this change:
34
352010-02-28  Pierre Ossman  <ossman@ossman.lkpg.cendio.se>  (tiny change)
36            Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
37
38       Fix deplibs check fallback for 64-bit Windows and Windows CE.
39       * libltdl/m4/libtool.m4 (_LT_CHECK_MAGIC_METHOD): Accept file formats
40       'pe-arm-wince' and 'pe-x86-64'.  Add note about consistency with ...
41       * libltdl/config/ltmain.m4sh (func_win32_libid): ... the respective
42       pattern here; sync pattern from the former.
43       * tests/deplibs-mingw.at (deplibs without file command): New
44       file, new test.
45       * Makefile.am (TESTSUITE_AT): Update.
46       * NEWS: Update.
47
48
49MB vs WCHAR
50===========
51
52Windows CE only supports the Unicode interface, while DBus Daemon uses
53the Multi-Byte interface on Windows by default.  The glue code does
54not support multibyte in all cases.  In particular, the _mbsrchr
55function is not correctly implemented.  It could be correctly
56implemented, or dbus daemon could use the wchar interface more
57consistently on all Windows targets.  For now, the Windows CE port
58will only work for filesystems without some weird characters in file
59names.  Is this a serious limitation?
60
61
62Known Issues
63============
64
65Autolaunch is broken so far.
66
67Environment variables are faked.  Some are punted to the registry, but
68in any case they can not be used reliably for IPC.
69
70The test suite is not ported yet.
71
72dbus-pipe.c:
73 * Uses libc file descriptors.  Needed for --print-address and
74   --print-pid which probably don't work yet.
75
76dbus-sysdeps-win.c:
77 * Backtraces have been disabled.
78 * _dbus_fd_set_close_on_exec Not supported, maybe we should disable
79   the warning.
80 * SearchPathA: Uses HKLM\\Software\\freedesktop\\DBus\\Install Directory
81   to locate binaries.
82