Wine TODO List

Top level page for fixes and improvements for Wine.

Various Projects

• IntegrationProjects: for cool ideas on how to improve Wine's integration with Desktop Linux,

• JanitorialProjects: various cleanups, fixes, etc. that apply to the entire tree

• DLLTodoList: place-holder for DLL maintainers to list all DLLs having TODO lists

• DirectX-ToDo: items and links for remaining tasks in Wine's DirectX implementation

• WineHQTasks: fixes and improvements for http://www.winehq.org

• AppdbInfo: todo and other information about the state of the appdb

• DIBEngine: create a new DIB engine in wine instead of using X's.

• RegeditFixes tasks for the built in regedit

• CygwinSupport: get Cygwin apps working on wine

• Make various open source win32 apps work with winelib: http://www.winehq.org/site/winelib

• Wine options: http://www.winehq.org/site/status_options and UsefulRegistryKeys

• also see http://www.winehq.org/site/fun_projects

Conformance Tests

Results from our conformance tests are posted here:http://test.winehq.org/data/ These tests need fixing so that they don't fail on Windows. There's always a need for volunteers to run the test suite on their boxes as well as help fix them.

If you would like to run the tests on your box, you can download a prebuilt Windows EXE from here: http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/paulm/WRT/CrossBuilt/

Smatch

Smatch is basically a patch to gcc-3.1.1 that makes gcc dump out its internal representation of the code and a set of perl modules/scripts to ease the parsing of the dumped code. Most of the perl scripts are for the Linux kernel but writing new scripts seems to be easy.

Michael Stefaniuc adapted an existing script for the kernel to find code paths with missing LeaveCriticalSection's. Scripts to find some other useful things like fd, DC, and GDI object leaks should be easy to write.

There is a web page about Wine and Smatch. It includes also a table with the bugs found by the smatch scripts: http://people.redhat.com/mstefani/wine/smatch/

Miscellaneous Tasks

• Code a tool to check wine configuration (e.g. ptrace bug, cdrom device access, opengl direct rendering,...)
• Make a D3D demo to include the Wine source - spinning Wine glass and Tux logo?
• Add i18n section to Wine Developer's Guide

• Handling initial install & upgrades

• Inter-process handle management
• I18N status tool

• Use dsw2make from MinGW in winemaker

• Create new winedesktop tool

• Move all Wine-specific macros to aclocal

• Performance-related bugs - speed things up a bit

• also see http://www.winehq.org/site/status_todo

• Fix bugs about UnimplementedFunctions in wine Bug list

• Improve the documentation. It has been suggested a number of times on wine-users that the user documentation needs improvement. Wine has three sources of documentation that could be improved in one way or another:

  • Wine User Guide

  • Man Pages - need pages for winepath and wineboot

  • This Wiki - see WikiToDo