GSoC 2015 projects

[Matteo Bruni]

Hey all,

tomorrow the coding period of the Summer of Code begins and I though
it might be a nice idea to let the community know about the projects
we've got this year. Actually, I though it would be even better if the
student themselves wrote a short summary of their own project for the
mailing list.

So, with no authority backing me, I'm kindly asking that. No need to
write anything too fancy, just a few lines explaining what are you
going to work on over the summer and maybe what are the expected
benefits for Wine.

Thank you!
Matteo.

[Aaryaman Vasishta]

Hello!

Thank you for inviting me to this opportunity! I will try my best to keep
it short, though it might be a bit long for some. There's a TL;DR at the
end, though. :)

A bit about myself. My name is Aaryaman Vasishta and I'm currently studying
in my third year of Computer Engineering in Pune Institute of Computer
Technology, India. My interests lie in game programming and computer
graphics.

My project focuses on implementing the rendering backend for the D3DRM API
[1].
D3DRM (Direct3D Retained Mode) is basically a scene graph API running on
top of Direct3D's Immediate Mode API. You can say it's more like a
rendering engine API which encapsulates Immediate Mode functionality in
order to make it easier for programmers to develop 3D scenes using it,
making it a possible competitor to OpenGL at the time.

At the moment wine's implementation of this API is mostly full of stubs,
and there's quite a bit of work left before something can be drawn on the
screen. My role here mainly focuses on implementing object
Creation/Initialization functions for some of the main interfaces, mainly
devices, textures and viewports, all of which are COM based. If time
permits, I will also work on implementing some frequently used frames and
lighting functions.

The API is quite old (it has been removed since DX 8 SDK, and the dll
doesn't come included with vista onwards) but there are a few popular games
that used it. Namely, Lego Rock Raiders and Steel Beasts, and applications
as well, like FMS (Flying Model Simulator). So there is some merit in
working on this. Implementing these functions will help accelerate further
development of this API to get some long-awaited apps to run on wine (I can
see quite a few threads on google of people trying to get FMS running, and
a couple for LRR too, so there is some demand for it). As an added bonus, I
also get to interact with wine's ddraw implementation for this one, which
could potentially help ddraw's implementation via possible bug
detection/fixes and implementing any ddraw functionality that d3drm
requires.

TL;DR: I'm implementing a main chunk of a graphics API called Direct3D
Retained Mode, which is based on Direct3D Immediate Mode. The API is mostly
a stub in wine and this project should help get things going.

Thank you!
Aaryaman Vasishta

[1] -
https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/details/google/gsoc2015/jam/5750...

On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 10:51 PM, Matteo Bruni 
wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> tomorrow the coding period of the Summer of Code begins and I though
> it might be a nice idea to let the community know about the projects
> we've got this year. Actually, I though it would be even better if the
> student themselves wrote a short summary of their own project for the
> mailing list.
>
> So, with no authority backing me, I'm kindly asking that. No need to
> write anything too fancy, just a few lines explaining what are you
> going to work on over the summer and maybe what are the expected
> benefits for Wine.
>
> Thank you!
> Matteo.

[Zhenbo Li]

Hello!

I'm glad to working on Wine GSoC this year. My project's focus is
IHMLTXMLHttpRequest. Many websites would use hacks to determine
whether the browser was IE6.0 or IE 7+. As XMLHttpRequest object
identifier was shipped in IE 7.0[0], the web developers would use
ActiveX to access IXMLHttpRequest object. Wine IE implements some new
features, so it is common that Wine IE is treated as a IE 7+
browser(like Firebug Lite[1])

Mozilla has implemented nsIXMLHttpRequest[2], and my approach is to
call the wine-gecko functions from wine code.
I can't tell how many applications' status on appdb will change from
"garbage" to "silver/gold", but IMHO, implementing XMLHttpRequest is
necessary to make wine IE more usable.

Thanks

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLHttpRequest
[1]: https://getfirebug.com/firebuglite
[2]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/nsIXMLHttpRequest

2015-05-25 1:21 GMT+08:00 Matteo Bruni :
> Hey all,
>
> tomorrow the coding period of the Summer of Code begins and I though
> it might be a nice idea to let the community know about the projects
> we've got this year. Actually, I though it would be even better if the
> student themselves wrote a short summary of their own project for the
> mailing list.
>
> So, with no authority backing me, I'm kindly asking that. No need to
> write anything too fancy, just a few lines explaining what are you
> going to work on over the summer and maybe what are the expected
> benefits for Wine.
>
> Thank you!
> Matteo.

[Iván Matellanes]

Hi all!

I'm looking forward to contributing to Wine.
My project consists on implementing part of the legacy Visual C++ iostream runtime, which was shipped with Visual Studio versions up to 6.0 and is currently a stub. I'll work on as many functions as time permits, and one of the key points is to reuse code from the modern Visual C++ runtime library that is already implemented.

Some old applications and games (like MS Reader and Tron 2.0) would benefit from this, as they would run with the built-in library. A quick search on Bugzilla for 'msvcirt' shows several bugs related to unimplemented functions.

Cheers,
Iván.

El 24/05/15 a las 19:21, Matteo Bruni escribió:
> Hey all,
>
> tomorrow the coding period of the Summer of Code begins and I though
> it might be a nice idea to let the community know about the projects
> we've got this year. Actually, I though it would be even better if the
> student themselves wrote a short summary of their own project for the
> mailing list.
>
> So, with no authority backing me, I'm kindly asking that. No need to
> write anything too fancy, just a few lines explaining what are you
> going to work on over the summer and maybe what are the expected
> benefits for Wine.
>
> Thank you!
> Matteo.

[YongHao Hu]

Hi, all.
Sorry for the late reply. I am happy to join this discussion.

My project focuses on implementing all the functions from tr2 namespace, 
which was included in the <filesystem> header and being proposed for 
standardization.
Though there are many methods to implement the functions like _File_size 
and _Equivalent etc, the hard part is finding the most appropriate one.

New applications like MSVC12[1] would benefit from this.
Thank you!

[1]: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35774

On 2015年05月25日 01:21, Matteo Bruni wrote:
> So, with no authority backing me, I'm kindly asking that. No need to
> write anything too fancy, just a few lines explaining what are you
> going to work on over the summer and maybe what are the expected
> benefits for Wine.