Outreachy Internships

[Filip Frackiewicz]

Hi Iwona,

If you are using Arch or Antergos, the package maintainer for flex has
released a patched version of flex-2.6.3 that avoids that particular
bug. Make sure you update your flex package to 2.6.3-2.

Filip

On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 9:25 PM, Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2017-03-21 6:06 GMT-06:00 Iwona Kotlarska <iwona260909 at gmail.com>:
>> Hi everyone,
>> I'm new to contributing to Wine and I would like to apply to Outreachy
>> Internship. I'm generally comfortable with C, but I don't understand Wine's
>> code yet.
>> I tried to download and build Wine on my computer, I followed this:
>> https://wiki.winehq.org/Developer_FAQ#How_do_I_download_and_build_the_very_latest_source_code_for_testing_purposes.3F
>> and make fails (linking actually) with undefined reference to yywrap in
>> function yylex in file programs/winhlp32/macro.lex.yy.c line 1032. I'm using
>> gcc 5.4.0.
>> Could anyone help me solve this compilation issue?
>> And suggest some small bugs to work on after succesfully compiling wine?
>> Thanks in advance for help!
>
> It's a bug in Flex; try downgrading to Flex 2.6.2 or wait a few months
> for Flex 2.6.4.
>
> Wine is big and complicated, so you'll want to pick something very
> specific for your Outreachy proposal. Good luck!
>
> -Alex
>
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