[Bug 18424] Mac OS X Joystick support doesn't work

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18424

--- Comment #51 from Jonas Maebe <jonas.bugzilla at gmail.com> 2011-06-19 11:33:23 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #50)
> I was wondering if I could be of help in diagnosis ...

Just to make it clear: I personally probably won't work further on this (except
maybe some things to improve the PS3 controller behaviour). Of course, any
diagnostics information you post can be useful to other people interested in
working on this.

> I have some flight
> simulators and a joystick I'd like to try out. However, I don't have git, but
> since this is the only commit I want to try out, can I just download a clean
> copy of a Wine engine source code and copy-paste your new joystick code into
> joystick_osx.c?

Yes, you can do that (since the changes do not depend on any other recent wine
changes). Rather than copy-pasting, it's however better to copy the patch
inside the wine directory, then open a terminal window, change into the wine
directory and type
  patch -p1 < name_you_gave_to_the_patch_file

Note that building wine is not that easy because of all the extra dependencies.
I also had to force gcc to generate 32 bit code for the configure process to
finish successfully, even though the wiki says that this should no longer be
necessary.

In general, I've found the easiest way to build wine is to use
http://code.google.com/p/osxwinebuilder/ (it automatically downloads all
dependencies and deals with all special parameter requirements), but the
downside is that it has no support for applying patches.

Given that wine has a 2 week release cycle for the unstable branch (at least
that's what I read somewhere on the wiki), the next unstable release that
includes this patch should be out in about 5 days though (and then you should
be able to use osxwinebuilding without any special options).

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