wil

Windows Implementation Library (by microsoft)

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  • C-Macs – a pure C macOS application
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Apr 2024
    Even then, MFC and C++/CX were the only productive ways to use it from Microsoft SDKs.

    .NET isn't as convenient as VB 6 was, fully embracing COM as the VBX replacement model, technically introduced in VB5, but still some stuff was lacking.

    Then there is Delphi and C++ Builder.

    It beat me that having doubled down on COM since how Longhorn went down, and Windows team getting their way doing avoiding .NET to take over, they hardly managed to create nice tooling as the competition.

    Editing IDL files with a Notepad like experience, manually merging generated code, and a couple of frameworks that barely go beyond yet another way to do AddRef/Release/QueryInterface and aggregation.

    Meanwhile D-BUS, XPC and AIDL, provide much better dev experience.

    Pity that Borland products are kind of tainted due to mismanagement decisions, otherwise maybe fixing COM dev experience would already been seriously taken by VS team.

    Ah, nowadays WIL is probably the best approach when having only to consume COM.

    https://github.com/microsoft/wil

  • ntoskrnl7/crtsys: C/C++ Runtime library for system file (Windows Kernel Driver)
    4 projects | /r/cpp | 30 Jun 2022
    Have a look at WIL for a C++ library used by Microsoft themselves, including kernel development.
  • I'm thinking about using a struct to hold allocated memory and guaranteeing it will be released when the struct goes out of scope, as an alternative to smart pointers. What do you think?
    1 project | /r/cpp_questions | 6 May 2022
    I'm digging for more information and it looks like Microsoft's created a way to handle the problems I'm trying to address with this: https://github.com/Microsoft/wil/wiki/RAII-resource-wrappers
  • Unwrapping WinUI3 for C++
    1 project | /r/cpp | 28 Apr 2022
    Since we are on this subject, those that need a nice C++ library to deal with COM in VC++, are better served with WIL.
  • RISC-V J extension – Instructions for JITs
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Mar 2022
    Not since Vista.

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/reference/kernel-...

    > Creates a binary that can be executed in the Windows kernel. The code in the current project gets compiled and linked by using a simplified set of C++ language features that are specific to code that runs in kernel mode.

    And then there is WIL, https://github.com/microsoft/wil

    https://community.osr.com/discussion/291326/the-new-wil-libr...

    > First off, let me point out that this library is used to implement large parts of the OS. There are hundreds of developers here who use it. So unlike, uh, some other things that get tossed onto github, this project is not likely to wither and die tomorrow.

    > There are, however, only a handful of kernel developers working on the library, so the kernel support has been coming along much slower. I'd like to expand the existing kernel features in depth ....

  • ToaruOS 2.0
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Dec 2021
    > Plus C++ standard library can't be used anyway and auto pointers aren't really that much of a concern at the kernel level

    https://github.com/microsoft/wil

    "Ah, but that isn't used on the Windows kernel" would be the expected reply, well

    https://community.osr.com/discussion/291326/the-new-wil-libr...

    "Microsoft's toolchain does not ship a copy of the STL that works in kernel mode. Partly this is because the kernel's CRT doesn't support C++ exceptions. (And partly this is because I/O is wildly different in kernel, so you'd have to rewrite the implementation of all the I/O libraries.)

    But for kernel developers, wil ships a subset of an STL implementation. To avoid conflicting with the real STL, it's available under the wistd namespace. The rule of thumb is that wistd::foo is a drop-in replacement for std::foo."

  • Linux Sucks 2021 – The End of Linux Is Nigh
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Sep 2021
    Windows is a mix of legacy C code, which started to be migrated into C++ around the Vista time (hence /kernel in VC++) and .NET/COM (WinRT is basically COM with some extras).

    Modern kernel code makes use of WIL.

    https://github.com/microsoft/wil

  • Away from Exceptions: Errors as Values
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Aug 2021
  • Windows Implementation Libraries (WIL)
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Jul 2021
  • Finding Windows HANDLE leaks, in Chromium and others
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Jul 2021
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microsoft/wil is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of wil is C++.


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