An introduction of a potential student contributor

[Zebediah Figura (she/her)]

On 6/23/21 2:30 AM, Zhiyi Zhang wrote:
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> On 6/23/21 3:17 PM, Weiwen Chen wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>> My name is Weiwen Chen, an undergraduate at Fudan University, Department of
>> Physics. I'm interested in open source projects and I have three years'
>> programming experience, mainly in python, c and golang. I have some
>> experience of operating system utilities through the labs of MIT 6.828. I'm
>> a linux user and wine is something good in my daily life. Maybe I'm not as
>> experienced as you, but I'll try my best to do something useful.
>>
>> I applied to the 'Implement robocopy.exe' summer project
>> <https://wiki.winehq.org/Summer_Of_Code#Implement_robocopy.exe>, and have
>> exchanged several emails with Ms. Figura and Mr. Li. (Though I'm not sure
>> whether my application will be accepted! ;))
>>
>> ---
>>
>> Besides, I want to know how to add a new executable into the `programs/`
>> directory correctly.
>>
>> I'm trying to set up a skeleton program which can be compiled. I created
>> `robocopy/` dir under `programs/`, copied things from `reg/` and modified
>> the `MODULE` variable in `Makefile.in`, added lines below in `configure.ac`
>> and rerun `autoconf` command.
>>
>> WINE_CONFIG_MAKEFILE(programs/robocopy)
>> WINE_CONFIG_MAKEFILE(programs/robocopy/tests)
>>
>> I hope it will generate an executable called `robocopy.exe` which acts like
>> `reg.exe`, but I don't find it under `.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/` or
>> `.wine/drive_c/windows/syswow64/`. Have I missed anything? I wonder how to
>> add a skeleton executable into `programs/` which can be correctly compiled
>> and placed.

The prefix is only updated when you run `wineboot -u` (or when a change 
affects wine.inf, which I don't think this does.)

> You need to copy robocopy.exe into the prefix. For example, add the following line to loader/wine.inf.in around line 2657 [FakeDlls] section
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> "11,,robocopy.exe"
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> For further reading, see dlls/setupapi/install.c SetupInstallFromInfSectionW() and https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/install/using-dirids also https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/install/overview-of-device-and-driver-installation

That shouldn't be necessary; the wildcard rule already takes care of 
installing all programs.

>>
>> I staged my code mentioned above under my github fork
>> <https://github.com/ofey404/wine/tree/robocopy>,
>>
>> Wish you all the best
>> Weiwen Chen
>>
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