Development Questions

[Dirk Hohndel]

On August 20, 2019 9:19:21 PM HST, Paul Buxton <paulbuxton.mail at googlemail.com> wrote:
>Hi guys, got a couple of questions.
>
>For windows development/debugging, is there anything I should know that
>isn't covered in the INSTALL file. Are there any settings that the
>installer configures or anything?

Not that I know of. Lubomir is the main expert on Windows questions.

>As far as I can see the options are build under WSL using the MinGW, or
>with MXE cross compile under a standard Linux box.

I strongly advise against native builds. I believe we still have only one person who successfully did that. It's insanely painful. The container MXE builds on the other hand are really straight forward.

>Coding style, looking at the coding style it looks mostly the same as
>the
>Kernel coding style, would it be worth using the .clang-format from the
>kernel tree?

Well, for the C code that would work. But there are a few additional things for C++

It's not exactly strictly enforced, though.

>Any etiquette for proposing changes etc. I should know about beyond
>sign-off lines with pull requests?

Smaller things are fine as pull request. For bigger or more fundamental changes I always suggest an email to the developer mailing list, first. A few areas have informal owners and it makes sense to get their take before spending time on something they'll reject...


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