March 2007 - Wine-devel - list.winehq.org

Supreme Commander Up and running!
by Stephan Rose 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

I've got SC up and running, had to apply that font patch (that moving into the source anytime soon btw? It does work nicely). So looking at my debug output at stuff that's got errors or fixme's, I came across this little line: fixme:file:ReplaceFileW Figure, that'd be as good as a start as any as something for me to implement. Easy to test too....just before I dive into it, anyone potentially already working on it (or is there a good way to check)? Figured I'd ask first before 2 people work on the same thing. Stephan

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Improving DirectDraw OpenGL renderer for SoC?
by Alexander Nicolaysen Sørnes 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

Greetings, i am thinking about participating in the Summer of Code, and thought it would be interesting to improve DirectDraw such that Command & Conquer Tiberian Sun & Red Alert 2 run faster. Currently, they crash once the mouse is moved in-game when OpenGL rendering is enabled. Thus the project would involve fixing that bug, and then other performance issues/crashes that occur. However, I don't really have much experience with C and Wine. The closest I have gotten is some patches for Wine's WordPad implementation. Would it be feasible to acquire the necessary knowledge and fix the bugs before the end of summer? Regards, Alexander N. Sørnes

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SoC idea: add BITS support
by Dan Kegel 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

Several applications require BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer Service). Adding an implementation of BITS would be quite useful. http://www.darvin.de/english/ is an interactive front end for BITS. The other apps I know of that require it are Visual C# Express 2005 and Google Pack, but there are probably more. - Dan

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SoC idea: Get Java working well enough to run Tomcat, installers, etc.
by Dan Kegel 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

There are a lot of little bits in Wine that are missing before Java can run smoothly. (Yes, Virginia, we need win32 JVMs to run in Wine, for many reasons: some installers require them, some apps bundle them, and some people just plain want to run the win32 version of some apps because that's what they're used to.) For instance, this bug says that we need to implement a little bit of IPv6 support to get Tomcat running: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7069 And http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6380 says we have some bug in msvcrt that keeps some versions of Java from running. This would be very useful indeed, because of the installers that require Java. - Dan

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DIB engine and cairo
by Alessandro Pignotti 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

Hi everyone, i'm not a dib engine nor a cairo expert, so i don't know if this is totally crazy. Anyway, could it be possible to use cairo as a backend for our dib engine? cairo support drawing on image buffers, that should be device indipendent and rendered client side. Regards, Alessandro Pignotti -- Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici -Dr. Faustus - Marlowe Public GPG Key ID 0x650B3ED9 on subkeys.gpg.net Key Fingerprint 6243 AAD3 E3EC 52D8 DFAA 2A2F 9FCD 0457 650B 3ED9 Encrypted mails are welcome

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SoC: improving Star Wars Empire at War support
by Bryan DeGrendel 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

I have been thinking about a few different ideas for WINE/SoC. One of the official possible ideas is to improve a non-working application. My proposal would be to improve WINE's support for Star Wars: Empire at War (which currently has a garbage rating on both WINE [ http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=4616 ] and Cedega [ http://transgaming.org/gamesdb/games/view.mhtml?game_id=3795 ]). The proposal's goal would be to provide a Windows-native level of support for Empire at War, or at least improve Empire at War support to a playable level. I would like a some feedback, if possible, before submitting. 1. Is this a weaker, or less useful to WINE, proposal because it would lead to likely result in more bug hunting than feature writing? This is quite a bit more open ended than working on a specific WINE feature (such as Rich Text Editing). 2. I do not know how much work will be needed to get the game working well. Currently, it crashes while loading due to an audio bug, but it is possible that I might only need to fix a few bugs to get the game to a playable state (though I think this is unlikely, the game is seems very picky on Windows). Would this be a problem? Bryan DeGrendel

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Re: [5/7] wined3d: Fix glsl texbem instruction for projective textures
by H. Verbeet 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

On 22/03/07, Fabian Bieler <der.fabe(a)gmx.net> wrote: > + shader_addline(arg->buffer, "T%u%s /= T%u%s;\n", sampler_idx, coord_mask, sampler_idx, coord_div_mask); > Are you sure that's correct? This will modify the coordinates for later instructions as well.

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Build script for older RPM distros
by Lei Zhang 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

Hi, It looks like we have not been doing a good job of maintaining Wine RPMs for older RH (derived) systems. On the Wine download page (http://www.winehq.org/site/download) the text link for RH/Fedora is a 404, and the icon links to an out of date page: http://www.winehq.org/site/download-rh. Does anyone want to do the builds for these systems? I wrote a script to automate building RPMs for RH 9 / RHEL 3 / CentOS 4. The script checks against the git web interface for the latest version of Wine, and it will download and build Wine if it finds a new release. One just need to have a working copy of the target OS and put the script in a cron job. http://linux.ucla.edu/~leiz/software/wine/wine_rpmbuild.sh.txt - Lei

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netapi32 tests not linked with netapi32.dll
by Paul Vriens 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

Hi, Could anyone think of a reason that the netapi32 tests are not linked with netapi32.dll although this is specified in the Makefile? I just had a look with PE Explorer at the crosstest executable and it didn't contain the netapi32.dll. The ds-test now skips all these tests on both Wine and Windows as I've changed that test to use GetModuleHandle instead of LoadLibrary (and this obviously failed). This also means it's not only the crosscompiling that fails to link. Cheers, Paul.

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automatically running wineprefixcreate
by Tom Spear 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

I was looking into my issues with menubuilder and trying to figure out ways to make the setup automatic so that everything would go where it should (since I know how to manually make wine put things in the proper place), and I noticed that no matter how wine is invoked (wine, winecfg, wineboot, winemine, notepad etc), if there is no ~/.wine it runs wineprefixcreate _first_ in order to create it. Currently in order to fix my issues, I have to re-run wineprefixcreate after running winecfg to make sure the directories and files are put in the place I have my fake c located. Would it be possible to make winecfg run wineprefixcreate one more time after the ok and apply buttons are pressed so that users dont have to manually run it when they use winecfg? -- Thanks Tom Check out this new 3D Instant Messenger called IMVU. It's the best I have seen yet! http://imvu.com/catalog/web_invitation.php?userId=1547373&from=power-email

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