To anybody interested,
I think I've found a solution to an old problem of implementing winmm joystick support in WINE for Mac, but lack the necessary skills and experience to code it up myself. WINE-Linux has had it implemented for awhile, but it was never coded up for OS X. winmm is an older interface used for a lot of different peripherals, included joysticks in quite a few classic games. As there were also some problems with dinput for WINE-OSX, originally it was thought the problems with winmm were also a bug. However, the problems with dinput have been solved and it seems the necessary code for winmm joystick support, rather than being buggy, was never actually written for WINE for the Mac. Thus it is an issue in need of development rather than a bug report. So I thought I'd ask if anyone was interested in developing the code to get winmm working in in the Mac-WINE environment?
I have an idea about what needs to be written but I lack the experience in Mac-system level programming to be of much use. I did take a look but found the API very arcane. That's why I am asking for someone with more experience. From what I can tell, the code should not be difficult to write for someone who knew what they were doing with regards to Mac system programming. There aren't many functions that need to be written and what ones there are seem simple enough. I have an outline about what functions need to written and modified to get winmm functionality working for the Mac-WINE environment. The requisite changes are here: ( http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18424#c75) It is written in a bug report because originally it was part of the same conversation as the dinput bug.
I look forward to hearing back from anyone interested in taking this (I think) short development project up. I'd be happy to learn and help test the code with some classic games that require winmm.
Cheers, David