Student preparing for GSoC

[Zebediah Figura]

On 15/03/18 01:38, Kieran Duggan wrote:
> Hello,
> I am a computer science student at the City College of New York. I have
> used Linux for a few years now and have frequently relied on Wine to run
> windows applications, so the opportunity to contribute to Wine is
> exciting to me.
> 
> I have successfully built wine from source and ran Ski Free on it to
> test if it worked. Next I wanted to try and find some of the fixmes that
> were popping up so I could attempt my first patch, however I am having
> trouble finding where exactly in the source the fixme's are arising.
> Maybe It's obvious and I'm just too tired right now to figure it out,
> but I would be very appreciative if someone could point me in the right
> direction with this.
> 
> While I have been learning computer science for years now, I have not
> yet contributed to an open source project. I am very eager to learn and
> become familiar with the process.
> 
> Thank you!
> Kieran Duggan
> 
> 
> 

Hello Kieran, and thanks for your interest in Wine and GSoC!

A fixme: message prints out the name of its component, then the function
in question, and then some further information. For example:

0041:fixme:ntdll:NtLockFile I/O completion on lock not implemented yet

is printed in the NtLockFile() function, which is part of ntdll. It's
printed in the source by a FIXME macro:

dlls/ntdll/file.c:3424:        FIXME("I/O completion on lock not
implemented yet\n");

In general you can just grep for the function name. I hope this helps.

Also please feel free to ask about any specific FIXME or bug before
trying to tackle it. A fair number of features are as yet unimplemented
because they're more work than they're worth.

ἔρρωσο,
Zeb