Hi,
I have built a list of projects that would benefit Wine (or at least
would make me feel better) and yet should be easy to tackle by new Wine
developpers. So if you wanted to contribute to Wine but just did not
know where to start I hope this list can provide you with some ideas.
If you want to contribute but don't find anything that motivates you
in this list, just post a message to say what you are interested in,
what are your special skills... and I'll try to come up with ideas.
Easy:
* Builtin msvcrt mishandles the cmdline to argv conversion
#234: http://wine.codeweavers.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=234
This prevents 'wine /mnt/win/Program\ Files/whatever/foo.exe' from
working if you're using the builtin msvcrt!
* Builtin msvcrt does not set the environment properly
#245: http://wine.codeweavers.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=245
A big bug in how the environment variable is set.
(Eric Pouech has sent a patch that pretty much fixes this one)
* PrgWin95/98: System metrics differ from the Win9x values
#48: http://wine.codeweavers.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48
One day I'll fix this one... I swear. Unless you want to work on
it first. In that case I'll provide you with my test application and
dumps of the metrics for Win95, Win98, NT4, ...
* winelib lacks VT_DECIMAL support
#181: http://wine.codeweavers.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=181
May require to modify many LOCs, but should be pretty easy to do.
* The doc about the command line arguments and the config file is out
of date. See TextCP, XVideoPort and Synchronous for instance. I'm
sure there are plenty of other things that are out of date.
* Metabug: Test Wine with the VXCL samples
#242: http://wine.codeweavers.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=242
Get the VXCL samples, test them with Wine and report the bugs in the
bugzilla database. I know there's lots of them. Then people (or
yourself) can start fixing these bugs in a distributed fashion.
You can probably start reporting the most obvious bugs just by
testing in Wine, but for more subtle bugs you will need two
computers (or Win4Lin/VmWare) to more easily compare the behavior in
Windows and in Wine.
* Metabug: Test Wine with the Common Control Spy Samples
#239: http://wine.codeweavers.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=239
Get the Common Control Spy samples and test Wine with them. You
will need the native comctl32 dll but you can do the tests
without rebooting between each test or using two computers.
* PrgWin95: Listbox getting a recessed border instead of a flat one
#56: http://wine.codeweavers.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56
(I can provide you with the sample application)
* I think it would be nice to add a tool that displays the dlls version
information like 'About' does in the windows explorer. I have some
code you could use as a starting point and I think it could be
merged with winver. In fact this would be almost stabdard windows
programming.
* Tabs are missing their inner border
#243: http://wine.codeweavers.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=243
There's a bug in the drawing of the border of the common control
tabs. Fixing each of the four instances of the code is easy. It would
be interesting to find a way to factorize some of this code.
Medium (I expect these would take longer or be a bit harder)
* Provide a pedump utility
#91: http://wine.codeweavers.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=91
I know there's sample code that does that already floating around so
it should be relatively simple.
* wrc fails on preprocessed files
#115: http://wine.codeweavers.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=115
I believe it's just a grammar problem. You'll need to know
(or to get cozy with) lex/yacc...
* CreateIcon does not resize bitmaps
#175: http://wine.codeweavers.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=175
I did a similar fix somewhere some time ago. I can provide a
sample application and I might be able to point you in the right
direction.
* winemaker: 'winemaker --nomfc' does not have the intended effect
#227: http://wine.codeweavers.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=227
* winemaker: Ignores the '--with-{mfc,wine}' options once they are
cached
#225: http://wine.codeweavers.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=225
If you're familiar with autoconf and know how configure scripts
should behave...
* StrokePath ignores PS_JOIN_xxx
#11: http://wine.codeweavers.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11
This should not be too difficult to fix but it would certainly help
if you are familiar with GDI.
* Checking the differences between what's in the Windows dlls and
what's in our spec files... and fix the contents of our spec files
as appropriate. I already have a list of all the APIs in each of
the dlls for Win95, Win98, NT4 and Wine2000, plus a script that
can show the differences.
* Enhancing the above perl script. In particular it could be made
smarter wrt. detecting whether an API is exported by ordinal or not.
--
Francois Gouget fgouget@free.fr http://fgouget.free.fr/
Hiroshima '45 - Czernobyl '86 - Windows '95
