wine users - Nov 2008 - how to compiling wine component and submit a patch?

Hi there,

I am a Chinese Wine user.  Recently I am studying a notorious wine problem among
Chinese community.  The problem is that some Chinese application cannot display
text correctly.

There is a "dirty" patch submitted in the Ubuntu community, as it is
dirty, people don't think the Wine team will accept it.

I am trying to study this problem.  My questions are:

1) How do I compile a portion of wine, e.g. gdi32.dll.so, without compiling the
entire source tree?

2) If a new solution is workable and we think is worth to submit to the Wine
team, how do I submit the patch?

Thanks,
xrfang

On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 1:01 AM, xrfang <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I am a Chinese Wine user.  Recently I am studying a notorious wine problem
among Chinese community.  The problem is that some Chinese application cannot
display text correctly.
>
> There is a "dirty" patch submitted in the Ubuntu community, as it
is dirty, people don't think the Wine team will accept it.
>
> I am trying to study this problem.  My questions are:
>
> 1) How do I compile a portion of wine, e.g. gdi32.dll.so, without compiling
the entire source tree?
You'd be better off compiling the whole source tree, in case the part
you're compiling depends on other parts of the tree. Once you've
compiled it once, you can recompile a specific part (e.g., just
gdi32), by cd'ing to its directory and running make there.
> 2) If a new solution is workable and we think is worth to submit to the
Wine team, how do I submit the patch?
Submit it to wine-patches at winehq.org.

-- 
-Austin

What I'd personally like to see is an app, registry entry or property for
specific apps in winecfg to set the language or encoding for that app (or even
"the system"), similar to what Microsoft's AppLocale does under
Windows itself. This would guarantee applications intended for different
languages to use the right character encoding.

Ah, thanks, though it will take some time to find the correct encodings for some
old apps from here.