Hello Kai,

I think I'd like to enter the SoC this year. I'd like to do one thing, but I've got a few different approaches to it. What I want to do is allows dlls to either access drivers directly or have access to .so's. I've talked about having windows to linux libraries in the past and it was said it wasn't worth the effort. However I'd like to get ATI's CAL working via wine. Cuda from Nvidia worked with a simple wrapper, but I don't believe a wrapper is the correct solution, as ATI is being more picky. I think allowing wine more access directly to drivers could solve part of this problem. I know that both the ATI and Nvidia drivers for linux/windows now work on the same code base, so I know some of the functions and calls must be similiar between drivers.

The other option is implementing a method for wine to examine a dll and a .so and automatically forward the functions which are compatiable (the same), sort of an auto wrapper, that way all libraries that have native ports can be used. Designing and coding something along these lines of win to lin libraries is something I've already thought a bit about and have some ideas but I don't know if is considered a large enough project for GSoC.

Thanks,

Seth Shelnutt

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Kai Blin <kai.blin@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi folks,

Wine has been accepted into the Google Summer of Code 2009.

If you're a student interested in working on Wine and getting some money (and
a cool t-shirt) for it, consider applying.

If there is any project you still want to see on
http://wiki.winehq.org/SummerOfCode, add it now.

If you're a Wine developer and tou want to mentor, let me know.

Cheers,
Kai

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