Hi folks, after being nagged by a freebsd user(dibridagoe) in #winehq today, I have decided to look into a problem with the Wine preloader on FreeBSD (http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5732).
Now, the wine preloader is Linux-specific, it seems. I'm not sure if it is needed in FreeBSD at all. http://www.winehq.org/site/docs/winedev-guide/x2584#ARCH-MEM and http://www.winehq.org/site/docs/winedev-guide/x2853 contain some information about the preloader rationale. The preloader source is at http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/?a=blob;f=loader/preloader.c;h=0034e9a948c3de7c2752f17efe11acb6db42a1ae;hb=HEAD the comments should explain some of the rationale there. Now, why am I bugging you folks with that? The reason this hasn't been fixed for FreeBSD yet is that we simply don't have developers who run that OS. So what I am asking for is this: Is someone who knows how to fix this in FreeBSD interested in helping me to create a patch? It can be a pain to get patches accepted in Wine, especially if you're a first-time committer. That's where I can offer my experience, or at least my stubborness in getting Wine patches in. However, I lack the knowledge of this low level code. Thus, I would need to have someone helping me with a patch or even someone to write that patch him/herself, in the latter case I'd offer help in getting it through Wine's review process. Thanks in advance, Kai -- Kai Blin WorldForge developer http://www.worldforge.org/ Wine developer http://wiki.winehq.org/KaiBlin Samba team member http://us1.samba.org/samba/team/ -- Will code for cotton.
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