Getting the Wine preloader to work in FreeBSD

[Anish Mistry]

On Thursday 31 May 2007, Kai Blin wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> after being nagged by a freebsd user(dibridagoe) in #winehq today,
> I have decided to look into a problem with the Wine preloader on
> FreeBSD (http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5732).
>
> Now, the wine preloader is Linux-specific, it seems. I'm not sure
> if it is needed in FreeBSD at all.
>
> http://www.winehq.org/site/docs/winedev-guide/x2584#ARCH-MEM and
> http://www.winehq.org/site/docs/winedev-guide/x2853
> contain some information about the preloader rationale.
>
> The preloader source is at
> http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/?a=blob;f=loader/preloader.c;
>h=0034e9a948c3de7c2752f17efe11acb6db42a1ae;hb=HEAD the comments
> should explain some of the rationale there.
>
> Now, why am I bugging you folks with that? The reason this hasn't
> been fixed for FreeBSD yet is that we simply don't have developers
> who run that OS. So what I am asking for is this:
>
> Is someone who knows how to fix this in FreeBSD interested in
> helping me to create a patch?
> It can be a pain to get patches accepted in Wine, especially if
> you're a first-time committer. That's where I can offer my
> experience, or at least my stubborness in getting Wine patches in.
> However, I lack the knowledge of this low level code. Thus, I would
> need to have someone helping me with a patch or even someone to
> write that patch him/herself, in the latter case I'd offer help in
> getting it through Wine's review process.
I'd suggest contacting gerald at FreeBSD.org since he maintains the wine 
port and might have the knowledge.

-- 
Anish Mistry
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