yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] netham45:
I copied the Quake 2 folder from my desktop (It was a Steam install), and just overwrite the files in it with the ones from the ARM version.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] svenk919:
Great work you guys!

OpenTTD got a very small font size with me though, makes the game badly playable as you can't read anything :( Problem was with the dutch language pack, setting it to English fixed things :)

If you pin the game to your desktop you can easily assign your own icon, in the C:\program files\openttd you can find the openttd icon :)
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] lilstevie:
Yeah, sorry, meant to put that on the known issues list. The library it uses for unicode has been a bit problematic (I need to spend a little bit of time on it) to build.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] someniceguy:
SumatraPDF

Someone ported SumatraPDF to Windows RT:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2098594

Maybe you can link to it on this thread?
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] isangelous:
The same chap has also ported Audacity:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2103779
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
Thanks folks; those apps, and Vim (from another author), have been added to the list. This is ridiculously awesome.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] skyway211:
I'm having some trouble with the ClassicStartMenu. I changed some of the settings and now when I right click the settings box won't pop up. Is there another way to access the settings. I've tried deleting the files and restoring the originals but it pulls the old settings back. Is there a file I can go change the will restore default settings.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] bfosterjr:
Just a follow up to this..

It looks like there won't be any joy with Directx9 anytime soon. While there is a D3D9.dll in the system folder it appears to be for legacy D3D9 things only.. (for which there is also a D3D10 wrapper).. meaning that the entire Directx9 runtime isn't available. I was in process of porting DirectQII (DirectX9 port of Quake 2) when I stumbled on this issue. So basically.. you can have a game which uses D3D9 for rendering.. but if its using the Directx9 input/sound/etc. interface.. it likely won't work (and certainly won't compile without some arm twisting - pun intended). There doesn't seem to be very many open source D3D10+ games either.. which is disappointing as I'd really like to get a nice 3D game ported :( Does anyone know of any? I'm willing to give this another shot.

Other than that.. I've spent the better part of today fighting with WinMerge source (love that tool). Its a pretty gross build they have for Windows.. and I've run into a ATL/MFC linking problem that I can't seem to sort out. I have near zero experience with ATL/MFC so I'm really out of my hacking comfort zone. Anyone else interested in WinMerge?

Oh.. off topic question.. has any tried to tackle a gcc cross-compiler for Mingw? Not something that will run natively on Windows RT.. but cross compile for it?
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] mamaich:
DirectDraw and DirectSound interfaces are present and are working. Except that you can't set non-32bit color modes in DDraw. Other interfaces are absent - no directplay, no directinput, no d3dx*.dll and so on.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] thierryb:
Can someone try to port the Seven tabtip to 8?

Everything is in the title

I need to be able to resize the tabtip.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] MrRusty:
I've got monotorrent to run on my windows 8 Rt tablet after the jailbreak patch but I can't seem to get it to d/l any torrent files.

I can load the torrent file into the program and it will run but states 0seeds when there are 500+ and 1 leech.

I can d/l the same torrent on my other laptop with no problem at all.

My firewall is set to allow all and my port is 6969.:(

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And one other thing, I get a message and it's not all the time but monotorrent states "Tracker did not respond to connect requests":eek:
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] irony_delerium:
Thanks!

I also just put up lame-3.99.5, mostly for lame_enc.dll to use with Audacity. It's on the same thread as Audacity:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=36968027&postcount=13

Chris
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] samco08:
Me too !

Exactly the same problem.

0 seed (for Ubuntu for example :D)
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] rjorge77:
Hi,

Can anyone port VNCViewer (from UltraVNC) ?

link source : ultravnc.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ultravnc/UltraVNC%20Project%20Root/UltraVNC/vncviewer/

:)

thanks,

regards,

RJ77
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] advancedservers:
Same, Any Ideas???
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] innerlogic:
I recompiled Mini Vmac. Was pretty smooth, just needed a few extra dependencies.

From the quick testing I did, all functions seem to work fine. All you need is a Mac rom, and system boot disk.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] apostroph3:
Anyone knows whether it's possible to get shell integration for 7-zip? You know, the right click -> extract with 7-zip functionality.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] bfosterjr:
VirtuaWin

VirtuaWin 4.4 for Windows RT is here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=36982798#post36982798
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] advancedservers:
Have a look at my previous post... I would post again but im on the road
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] rjorge77:
Hi again,

Just one more port request, if possible :)

TFTP v4.00 (DHCP, FTFP,DNS,SNTP,SYSLOG) client/server :

info : tftpd32.jounin.net/

source link : tftpd32.jounin.net/download/tftpd32-sources.400.zip

thanks,

regards.

RJ77
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
Windows RT, like other Windows versions, actually comes with a TFTP client. You must enable it using the "Turn Windows Features On or Off" window, which is reachable by typing "features" into Start and looking under Settings.

Getting server and additional tools will of course require a port, and that sounds like a good project... I just wanted to make sure you knew that you don't have to wait for that projectif you want a TFTP client.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] rjorge77:
Hi,

Thanks for the reply.

Yup, i knew that, IMO the most interesting part its really the server side feature, like Syslog and TFTP Server, which is very useful for debugging and recovering nertwork equipments. ;)

thanks a lot,

best regards,

RJ77
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] tycho:
Has anyone tried running/porting Calibre, or isn't it even worth trying given the info above
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] drsqueggy:
I'm having the same issue here, got the jail break and torrent client working, managed to get a torrent file into the client but wont download. It just sits there on 0.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
That's odd... I've tested it myself, and was able to download a file. A small one, and probably very well seeded (from the Humble Indie Bundle 7) but it worked.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] netham45:
Rainmeter!

As always, no warranty. Not everything works 100% either (I was getting a few timezone errors every once in a while, along with the CPU temp always reporting 0c.)

(Note: This is an older version of it. They moved from SVN to Git and I didn't notice the message in their SVN repo until I had it all working.)
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] kind3rgarten:
Classic Start Menu Themes

Has anyone used Classic Start Menu and tried to apply the themes? I really appreciate and like that someone ported this program, but it seems as though the themes do not work. I have tried multiple times to apply them, even restarting the program to see if something may have not been running correctly but no avail.

I have installed it on my Windows 7 desktop and played around with it and it seems that when it installs, it creates a folder called 'Skins' and dumps all the skins in there. In the ARM version(portable), there is no 'Skins' folder. I have tried adding the folder to the directory but it does not seem to help. I can get the themes to apply on my desktop,(x86) but not my VivoTab RT(ARM).

Can anyone take a quick look at this and see if something is broken/not ported?
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] C-Lang:
Yeah, look earlier in the thread, I had the same problem. :D

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Could someone PLEASE port The Prey Project? Pretty please? :laugh::D http://preyproject.com/download it's open source, don't worry.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] netham45:
Their windows builds don't seem to be open source. I'm only seeing Linux stuff.

The node.js version may work out of the box, though.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] C-Lang:
https://github.com/prey/prey-bash-cliet I downloaded this, and it looks like it has all the windows stuff, but needs to be compiled? I could be wrong, but that's what it looked like.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] lilstevie:
I have classic start menu in c:\users\steven\Downloads\classicstart but I needed to put the skins in c:\users\steven\Downloads\skins for it to work, hope that helps a little, also worked with a skin I downloaded.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] apostroph3:
Thanks mate! I searched for "shell integration" and "right click" but no result came up. Luckily you only have 18 posts for me to go through! :D

For those interested in the 7-zip right-click functionality: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=36688795&postcount=157
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] netham45:
That looks to be an x86 Bash interpreter with accompanying resources, nothing that would run on the tablet.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] advancedservers:
No problem ;)
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] bfosterjr:
OpenSSL

I managed to re-jig all the build scripts for OpenSSL and added a "VC-ARM" build option so I've got it building Win32 ARM binaries now. I haven't posted them yet because I haven't run through all the unit tests yet (there are many!). Anyone working on a port that has a dependency on OpenSSL? If so I can send you the lib/dll for your testing ASAP -- otherwise I'll try to get the binaries posted within the next day or so once I'm confident its working correctly.

EDIT: you can now get the binaries here --> http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=37073831
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] MrRusty:
So has any body got Monotorrent to work on Windows 8 RT.

It seems that I'm not the only one to have problems D/L.

The program works fine but won't download. What is RT doing that prevents the torrent from connecting.

And yes the firewall has aloud access for the program.

If some one tweaked windows or the program, maybe you could share with us peasants :eek:
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] eXecuter.bin:
Nice work!

Are you planning to port the updated version too?
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] jhoff80:
Many trackers have an approved clients list, could that possibly be part of your issue? (I haven't actually tried this app myself, so I don't know for sure).
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] martyj999:
Monotorrent not working here either, gave a message "tracker did not respond to the connect request" on the general tab ...pretty disappointing, I'm sure its something simple though :eek:
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] save_jeff:
ssaaxx wrote an app that uses the C# compiler from VS2012 to run cs files:

[how to] Develop on Windows RT: A C# Scratchpad:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2112351&nocache=1
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] samco08:
?

Many peoples report that monotorrent does not work.

I think it could be better to remove it from the ported app list !?

Or add a comment "not usable at this time"

no ?

i tryed lot of torrents (official and legal) I had every time the same issue.

Firewall is ok

@+
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] fourmi1:
Hello everyone.

Is someone willing to port the openVPN client to windows rt (if it'ever possible)?

Native vpn is some kind of limited...

Thanks
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] bfosterjr:
zlib

Not an app, but might help others save time with app ports..

Zlib 1.27 binaries -> http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2113684

Cheers!
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] martyj999:
Hi guys, probably completely misunderstanding what's possible to do, but can someone port this to windows RT:

http://librecad.org/cms/home.html

no idea what's involved or if it's even an option, happy to hear your thoughts negative or otherwise, thanks
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] netham45:
This has seriously been covered a half dozen times, use the search function.

Looking at it, I think the main hurdle is going to be getting Qt Creator to target ARM, but at a first glance it doesn't seem to use anything that would be difficult to port.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] martyj999:
Really??? This would increase the value of my surface by about 50% - wish i had a clue what to do - Thanks for the reply :highfive:
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] freedomright:
monotorrent

Monotorrent isn't working I was excited but didn't work,

Please we need a torrent client for windows rt.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] Wischm0pp:
Isn't it possible to recompile Cheat Engine? http://cheatengine.org/downloads.php

Don't know if it is problematic, that much of it is written in Delphi.

And will this even work? I mean maybe theres differences in the programs making it impossible to read/change values like it is on x86.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] pc4ever1:
Screenshot saving and emailing

Could someone port Greenshot ( I do not know how to port programs)

It's an open source program similar to ShareX BUT with a lot more capability to add comments, touch up etc. .

But the main reason is to be able to take a screenshot on a webpage and directly send via e-mail. I have not been able to find a way to get ShareX to send a screenshot directly by e-mail. If anyone has found a way I would appreciate that you shared the technique.

Here is the link to Greenshot

getgreenshot.org

Thanks
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] save_jeff:
You are in luck. They coded it in Visual Studio.

I complied it without changes.

Here is the link to an own thread : Greenshot 0.7.009 AnyCPU (for Windows RT)
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] Firetop:
Hey Everyone.

I'm kinda a noob when it comes to the Windows RT.

I'm always in the android section of this Forum but i have a friend that got a Surface RT and he wants to install Java on his surface. Is this possible?

I saw the IKVM/JDK on the OPs post.

My question is how do i install that on the RT? I already Jailbroke it. But remember I'm a complete noob in this part of XDA so can anyone help me with a step by step kind of instuctions.

I do understand how the system works so you don't need to tell me how to turn it on. Just for my friend i would like some help on IKVM From the point of downloading down onto the tablet!

Thank you so much in advanced to anyone that decides to help!
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] kind3rgarten:
Thanks! For anyone else wondering, this is what you need to do to get skins working in ClassicStartMenu.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] schettj:
works great! hypercad on the surface! Party like it's 1989
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
OK, lots of responses:

* OpenVPN would be awesome, but it requires the TAN/TAP networks drivers, which won't install on RT without a Microsoft signature. This might be possible to fix in the future, but not right now.

* Yeah, I'll note that Monotorrent isn't really usable right now. Odd - it worked for me on an (admittedly tiny) 30MB download.

* LibreCAD is probably possible, though somebody else will have to take it - I'm swamped.

* IKVM definitely needs work, but it's surprisingly usable if you don't mind the bad performance and minor bugs. I managed to get Burp Suite running in it, which is kind of awesome. Installing it is simple; just download the binaries and extract them from the ZIP file to a folder on your drive. Then use the bin\ikvm.exe program exactly as you would use java.exe. It's probably possible to make it work with double-clicking on .JAR files, too, but I haven't tried that.

* Speaking of web proxies, Fiddler (the new, .NET 4 version) runs well enough, unmodified.

* I also added the other tools and libraries which people have posted today. Thanks all!
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] illidanx:
Hi, the link to Miktex is wrong. It actually links to zlib. Here is the correct link:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2113634
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
Fixed, thanks!
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] mcoot:
Great work on the porting / development - I could hardly have expected such a thriving dev community for Desktop Windows RT software in such a small space of time.

My development experience is fairly limited, though I could probably get VS set up properly and build things that only require minor changes.

Anyway, I'm wondering what the feasibility is of a port of Mumble, an Open Source VOIP client.

Here is their Wiki page regarding building Mumble on Windows. Here's the relevant details I can pull from that:

It already builds with MSVC (the VS2010 compiler... not sure whether there would be compatibility issues in VS2012)

It uses QT for the interface. Not sure if anyone's got QT working on RT yet.

In terms of dependancies, there are things like Bonjour and ZeroC Ice, but you can build without support for them

The core libraries it uses are libsndfile and Protocol Buffers (in addition to DirectX and the Windows SDK), so we'd have to get them working first

We'd also need to build Boost and OpenSSL

So yeah. Based on that information, and what's presented in that linked page, is a port of Mumble feasible?
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] netham45:
Mumble has some dependencies (libsndfile, mainly) that can't be built with MSVC. That's where I got hung building it, but I didn't look too much into actually building libsndfile with msvc.

I had everything else (QtMumble, OpenSSL, zlib, boost) built just fine for it, though.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] saiedbaran:
fiddler and liberCAD

I can't run fiddler and liberCAD...but the other apps run great

any one have idea about this?

I got this eror..."this app can not on your PC"
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] prb304:
I have no idea about what's required but could VUE be ported? http://vue.tufts.edu/
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] jrk190:
Call me crazy, but would it be possible to build Chromium for it? Also... Slightly off topic... But does anyone know what the cheapest Windows 8 Tablet is?
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] save_jeff:
There is a projekt : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2095686
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] THEBIG360:
Sabnzbd, I'm trying to run it with python. Not got a clue what to do. Such a newbie.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] Bjray:
[Recompile Request] Mixxx

Website: http://www.mixxx.org/

Source Code: http://downloads.mixxx.org/mixxx-1.10.1/mixxx-1.10.1-src.tar.gz (http://www.mixxx.org/download/)

Can some awesome dev out there port this please? This really would make RT tablets great for DJ's!
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
@saiedbaran: You can't run the Fiddler installer, but you can extract the files from the installer using 7-Zip. Sorry, I should have been more explicit about that. The extracted files will work (assuming you grabbed Fiddler 4).
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
VUE appears to be Java-based, so using IKVM may work. You might have to unpack the files and "install" it manually, though.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] illidanx:
Hi, I wonder if it's easy to port WinSCP (http://winscp.net/eng/index.php) to ARM? It's open source and provide a graphical interface for SSH file transfering. I know psftp can do the same thing but a graphical interface is definitely nicer. Sorry if this has been asked before.

Thank you.

Edit: i just realized this has been asked before and there is some difficulties in gathering the required components. Is it still on some hero's to-do list? Thank you.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] irony_delerium:
Will a static lib do?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fpkgc59tx1ojmy6/libsndfile-1.0.25.zip

That's the entire source directory, using the project file / config out of Audacity and the current version of libsndfile. I haven't tested it against anything yet, but it builds. I'm not the most familiar with VS, so I haven't gone through much of the routine for making a DLL for it instead. There's also the stack of object files in it.

The library is in win\ARM\Release\libsndfile.lib.

Chris
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] mr_dan:
make port of Fallout or fallout 2 please, i beg you!! :D
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] netham45:
Please read the first post of the thread, mainly the section where it mentions closed-source programs.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] madisonjar:
I may be an idiot and not understand how all this works, but is there any way at all to get active x working on the RT? I need it for some business meetings, thanks and again if I am an idiot please dont laugh...hard.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] netham45:
ActiveX is native code. It might work if the applets were recompiled for ARM, but it won't work for x86 modules, which are likely going to be all you'll find.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] madisonjar:
okay thank you, so no hope then huh? might have to get surface pro?
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] schettj:
yep, if your need is for full support of x86/x64 native apps, the Pro is the device you want.

It's awesome that this hack exists and demonstrates how capable the arm based port of windows 8 is, but it still is primarily a companion device that does what it does well, and not much more.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] canzocom:
Inkscape and Aptana Studio

I've been curious since the Surface was first announced about whether Aptana Studio or Inkscape would work on these devices. Is it possible to compile any of these for ARM? They are all open source.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] Lumen_Melano:
Also having the same issue

Finally got my 10 posts.

Ok so I've got the exact same issue with Dosbox. I used the download from netham45's reply to windowsrtc. I am running an Australian distributed model (32gb), I don't know if that is an issue. I've tried running from SD and C:, but with the same result. Other ports work fine, Quake and OpenTTD for instance. Any hints?
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] AndreyKnd:
Hi everyone,

folks whether it is possible to port any 3rd party open source email client? Here is the link for several of them - http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/download-email-client-for-linux-mac-osx-windows.html

Thanks for your great solutions!
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
@windowsrtc: Odd... DOSBox runs fine on my Surface RT. I'm En-US based, though, so it may be an internationalization problem.

@badablog: There are people working on it. Thunderbird is the preferred target of most, I think, and has the advantage of being relatively friendly toward building on Windows (many others are only going to propbly build under GCC, preferably on Linux or similar).
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] AndreyKnd:
Thanks for info, waiting for it desperately!
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] Lumen_Melano:
Yeah I found it odd when someone claimed that it worked fine with the german localization, I might try setting the system language to English US and see if that sorts it.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] giga.martin:
Could you port the MEDIA PLAYER CLASSIC with all of the codecs?

I use it for watching divX files, any avi's and everything else. Would love to use this player on the surface.

Tank you very much
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] jessenic:
Dosbox running fine here. Using Finnish as display language, though this is German 32GB model.
[Windows RT Development and Hacking] windowsrtc:
try windows update.it works for me now