From 4897535977462542b38edc5f4331a0d32c3edf02 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Dimitrie O. Paun" Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 20:08:53 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Remove some obsolete and/or redundant info. --- documentation/HOWTO-winelib | 258 +----------------------------------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 257 deletions(-) diff --git a/documentation/HOWTO-winelib b/documentation/HOWTO-winelib index 25c7df7eebb..eaeca8a7466 100644 --- a/documentation/HOWTO-winelib +++ b/documentation/HOWTO-winelib @@ -19,16 +19,10 @@ Table of Contents I. Introduction: Wine vs. WineLib - II. Legal Issues - - III. How Much Work? - IV. File Format Conversion V. Compiling A Simple Win32 Program - VI. Compiling A Win32 Program With Resources - VII. DLLs A. Windows executable and Windows DLL. B. Windows executable and WineLib DLL. @@ -39,18 +33,6 @@ VIII. How to use MFC A. Using a native MFC DLL B. Compiling MFC -VIII. Trademarks -Windows 3.x, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT are trademarks of -Microsoft Corporation. - -Unix is a trademark of ???? FIXME: who has the trademark this week? - -CrypKey is a trademark of Kenonic Controls Ltd. - -FIXME: Codewright copyright ??? - -All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. - ===================================================================== I. Introduction: Wine vs. WineLib @@ -160,96 +142,7 @@ are used in several places in Wine and WineLib to provide glue between windows code and code for non-windows compilers. WineLib provides a tool called winebuild in the tools/winebuild directory that converts a spec file into a C file that can be compiled and linked with the -windows source files. If you examine hello2.spec, you will see the -following: - -name hello2 -mode guiexe -type win32 - -import user32.dll -import kernel32.dll -import ntdll.dll - -Information on the complete format of the spec file can be found in -/tools/winebuild/README. Name is the name of the -application. Mode is the type of "glue" that winebuild needs to -create. Possible modes are 'dll' for a library, 'cuiexe' for a console -application, and 'guiexe' for a regular graphical application. Type is -the type of API, either win32 or win16. Win16 is supported only in -Wine, not WineLib, so you should use win32. Import is a dll that must -be loaded for the program to execute. - -During compilation of the hello2 executable, the following command is -executed. - -LD_LIBRARY_PATH="..:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" \ - ../tools/winebuild/winebuild -fPIC -L ../dlls -sym hello2.o \ - -o hello2.spec.c -spec hello2.spec - -The program winebuild will generate the output file hello2.spec.c (option --o hello2.spec.c) from the spec file hello2.spec (option -spec -hello2.spec). The option -fPIC specifies that winebuild should generate -position independent code and is only necessary for building shared -library files (.so files). It is not needed when building the main -executable spec file, but since there is no assembly code generated -for the main executable, it doesn't make any difference anyway. [5] - -The winebuild program is used in several places in Wine as well as -WineLib; however, only the -spec option will be used in WineLib. The -output file hello2.spec.c contains the glue code to initialize WineLib -and call WinMain(). - -In order to run hello2, we will compile the code into a shared library -(hello2.so) and create a symbolic link (hello2) with the wine -executable with the following steps. - -gcc -c -I. -I. -I../include -I../include -g -O2 -Wall -fPIC -DSTRICT \ - -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/X11R6/include -o hello2.o hello2.c - -to compile the windows program itself and - -gcc -c -I. -I. -I../include -I../include -g -O2 -Wall -fPIC -DSTRICT \ - -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/X11R6/include -o hello2.spec.o hello2.spec.c - -to compile the spec file and the glue code. Finally, - -gcc -shared -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib -Wl,-Bsymbolic -o hello2.so \ - hello2.o hello2.spec.o -L.. -lwine -lncurses -lm -lutil -ldl - -links the compiled files into a shared library. - -FIXME: -D_REENTRANT why? -FIXME: explain compiler options -FIXME: explain linker options - -All of the steps are automated with the makefile, so "make hello2.so" -will execute all of the steps for you. A final step is "make hello2", -which creates a symbolic link from hello2 to the wine executable. Now, -when "./hello2" is run, the wine executable sees it was called by the -name "hello2" and loads the shared library "hello2.so" and executes -the program. - -THE INFO BELOW IS OUT OF DATE (28-Dec-2000) - -Thus, you now have the basics of compiling a simple windows -program. There are two more things to learn for compiling more complex -windows programs: windows resources and DLL dependencies. Window -resources are described in the next section. DLL dependencies are -handled by linker magic with windows compilers. Thus, in WineLib, you -will need to provide information about which DLLs your program -depends. This information is given in the spec file. For example, if -our hello2 program had a .wav file that it played, it would need the -multi-media DLL winmm. Our spec file would then be - -name hello2 -mode guiexe -type win32 -init WinMain -import winmm - -If you need to list multiple DLLs, then the import specification can -appear multiple times, one line per imported DLL. +windows source files. ... VII. DLLs @@ -461,75 +354,6 @@ VIII. How to use MFC FIXME: to be continued. -===================================================================== -References - -Until this HOWTO is complete, I will document who gives me what -information. - -Reference [1] -From: Patrik Stridvall -To: "'wilbur.dale@lumin.nl'" , -Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 14:25:22 +0200 - -First of all WineLib suppport for Win16 has been discontinued -for quite some time, because: - -1. It is difficult for us to support and it is impossible - to do so perfectly without special compiler support, - because of memory layout issues. For example Win16 int - is 16-bit and data is aligned 16-bit. -2. It is in almost all cases easier to port a - Win16 application to Win32. - -A minor detail, I personally would prefer that Wine and WineLib -was always used in the uppercase W and uppercase L variant, -instead of, as in your document, sometime one variant, sometimes -another. - -Reference [2] - -The exact options for controlling error messages mentioned in the -reference are apparently incorrect, but may have been correct for some -earlier version of Wine. - -From: michael cardenas -To: wilbur.dale@lumin.nl -Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 13:19:34 -0400 - -a few things you should mention... - -- you can compile resources as a dll under windows and then load the dll -with wine. That's what we do for canvas. This is probably not ideal, but -most of my problems porting were in the code. We very seldomly have to -change the resources for the porting process. But wrc does work for most -cases... - -- the error messages can be turned off or turned up with options to -configure like --enable-trace-msgs=wireoff or --enable-trace-msgs=wireon . -Take a look at configure. - -- you probably want to compile your WineLib with --disable-debugger, at -least for the release version of your app. - -Reference [3] -http://fgouget.free.fr/wine/winelib-en.shtml - -Reference [4] -Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 10:34:10 +0200 -From: Rob Carriere -To: Wilbur N Dale -Subject: WineLib-HOWTO comments - -Hello Wilbur, - -Some picking of nits. It reads right well. - -Some of Windows xyz are registered trade marks, other are vanilla: -Microsoft: Registered -Windows NT: Registered -Windows (95,98): plain - A Windows compiler does NOT generate a fake main. Instead, the executable file format provides for 2 (NE) or 3 (PE) entry points. One of these is your program, the other(s) are normally filled with @@ -547,86 +371,6 @@ run time libs and DLLs occur at this level. Line 86: I only need to know how compile MFC if I use it... :-) -Best regards, - Rob mailto:rob.carriere@lumin.nl - -Reference [5] -To: wilbur.dale@lumin.nl -Subject: Re: tool/build questions -From: Alexandre Julliard -Date: 13 Jun 2000 20:06:23 -0700 - -"Wilbur N. Dale" writes: - -> 2. tools/build for WineLib users -- is there ever a need to not specify -pic? - --pic is only necessary for building .so files, so it's not needed when -building the main executable spec file (but since there is no assembly -code generated for the main exe it doesn't make any difference anyway). - --- -Alexandre Julliard -julliard@winehq.com - -Reference [6] -Wine Weekly News #51 (2000 Week 28) - -Events, progress, and happenings in the Wine community for -July 10, 2000. - -Uwe Bonnes and Ove Kaven also reminded of some tools to generate under - Linux some Windows executables: - * Cygwin/Mingw: as native Linux apps - * LCC-Win32: run with the help of Wine - * Borland C++ 5.5: command line version available for free (after - registering to Borland users' database) - -===================================================================== - -The information included here is from various Wine-devel posting and -private e-mails. I am including them so that any one starting on MFC -will have some documentation. Glean what you can and good luck. - -Before I write more detailed info on compiling MFC I have three -questions. The info I have mentions three problems: - - 1. Wine header files---what is the status of this? Do changes need - to be made in the headers and if so, do I submit the changes back - into Wine cvs? Do the changes need #ifdef for C vs. C++ - compilation? - - Francois Gouget has been doing a lot of work in - this area. It should be a lot easier to compile using C++ now and to - compile MFC. - - 2. DOS format files and no case distinction in - filenames. Do the extensions Corel made to gcc 2.95 handle this? - If so, how? - - 3. Microsoft extensions to the C++ syntax. Do the extensions Corel - made to gcc 2.95 handle this? If so, how? - -If you have info that needs to be added, send me email at - and I will add it. - -===================================================================== - -THANKS - -Most of the information in this file came from postings on - and from private e-mails. The following people -contributed information for this document and I thank them for their -time and effort in answering my questions. I also want to thank them -for encouraging me to attack the MFC problem. - -CONTRIBUTERS: - - Damyan Ognyanoff - Gavriel State - Ian Schmidt - Jeremy White - - From: Damyan Ognyanoff Subject: Re: Wine MFC info request