empyreal96/easy-build-2k

An early concept build tool for compiling the Windows 2000 Source using my Easy-Build Environment..

Easy-Build Environment for Windows 2000 (NT 5)

Current Features

FIRST REVISION

• Free and Checked Builds
• Razzle

NOTES:

• This is VERY EARLY STAGES, NOT EVERYTHING WORKS YET
• Missing headers were taken from Windows 2000 DDK and Plat SDK, some things may need to be taken from NT 4 base.
• Currently Issues with CL.exe and some files.
• Currently Issues with cvtres unable to read obj{d}\i386\*.tmp.
• Razzle and Easy-Build were ported from the Xbox Tree so there may be a few issues there.
• Updates to this will NOT be frequent, this is a pet project to originally see if Easy-Build can be made 'portable'

Setting up the tree:

• You will need to download the Windows_2000_Source_Code.7z that can be found on archive.org.

• Extract private\ and public\ folders from the .7z, and place inside a folder called NT\ at the ROOT of a drive, e.g: W:\NT\public and W:\NT\private

• Clone this repo, and place NT\ and 2k_razzle.cmd in the ROOT of a drive e.g: W:\NT\ W:\2k_Razzle.cmd. (OVERWRITE ANY FILES IF ASKED)

• Launch 2k_Razzle.cmd and follow on-screen instructions.

easy-build-2k's Issues

CVTRES fails to find .tmp files during compilation

cvtres : error CVT1101: cannot open 'obj\i386\file.tmp' for reading

Looking online I read that this is to do with lack of Permissions for culprit folders, But checking the 'Security' tab in file/folder Properties and ensuring everyone has R/W access didn't solve.

One theory I have is again, down to makefiles and possibly the build environment, as Razzle was taken from the Xbox tree

CL returns fatal error on some directories

NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cl' : return code '0xc0000135'

This occurs with some folders in the tree, a quick search told me it's to do with cl.exe not being in the path.
I have a few guesses as to why:

• Headers and some source files were taken from Windows 2000 DDK and Platform SDK, so some source and makefiles may need tweaking.
• As the reason above, VC98 and DDK paths may need to be added to the Build Env to satisfy some issues
• Missing files e.g mspdb60.dll

(Ongoing) Recreate missing Headers, libs and source files.

This is an ongoing task, Using relevant sources to recreate missing files that the build complains about.

• Windows 2000 DDK
• Windows 2000 Platform SDK
• Windows NT 4 Source

These are what I have been using so far to recreate the tree.