Help for new comers to get started with Wine debugging

[lunavorax]

Hello everyone,

I'm a long time Wine user and a C programmer.
I use Wine mostly to run Win16 games designed for Windows 3.1 and Win32 games designed for Windows 95/98.

I often feel helpless when a game I want to run crashes and I want to contribute to Wine to implement some unimplemented function (win16 has some, if I recall correctly), and to patch bugs I encounter.

However, since Wine is a big and esoteric project, it is overwhelming to try to dive into the source code alone.

Therefore, I was wondering it any wine developer ever thought to make a video recording (with or without commentary) showing the debugging workflow (encountering a bug → back-tracing → fixing).
I would love to watch and learn, even if this would result in 60 hours or more of recording.

For instance, does anybody would be willing to stream the work they do on YouTube or Twitch?

Hope my question doesn't sound too ridiculous.
Best regards.

[dimesio]

Developers rarely read the forum; the place to contact them is the wine-devel mailing list. AFAIK there are no videos and I don't know of any plans to make any.

As for getting into Wine development, have you looked at the Developer's Guide and other documentation aimed at developers on the wiki?

If you're just looking for step-by-step examples of debugging a problem in Wine, the wiki has three:
https://wiki.winehq.org/Debugging_PE_Explorer
https://wiki.winehq.org/Debugging_Reason_3
https://wiki.winehq.org/Debugging_Wild_Metal_Country

[wildtux]

Lunavorax, I'm in the same issue. Willing to understand winedebug for my wine starter script project.
If you like, we can support each other this way.

Thanks Dimesio for those links, hoping they will helpful.