2 .TH WIDL 1 "October 2007" "@PACKAGE_STRING@" "Wine Developers Manual"
4 widl \- Wine Interface Definition Language (IDL) compiler
7 [\fIoptions\fR] \fIinfile\fR.idl
10 [\fIoptions\fR] \fB--dlldata-only\fR \fIname1\fR [\fIname2\fR ...]
12 When no options are used the program will generate a header file, and possibly
13 client and server stubs, proxy and dlldata files, a typelib, and a UUID file,
14 depending on the contents of the IDL file. If any of the options \fB-c\fR,
15 \fB-h\fR, \fB-p\fR, \fB-s\fR, \fB-t\fR, \fB-u\fR, or \fB--local-stubs\fR are given,
17 will only generate the requested files, and no others. When run with
18 \fB--dlldata-only\fR, widl will only generate a dlldata file, and it will
19 contain a list of the names passed as arguments. Usually the way this file
20 is updated is that each time
22 is run, it reads any existing dlldata file, and if necessary regenerates it
23 with the same list of names, but with the present proxy file included.
25 When run without any arguments,
27 will print a help message.
33 Print version number and exit.
37 Generate header files.
38 .IP "\fB-H \fIfile\fR"
39 Name of header file to generate. The default header
40 filename is \fIinfile\fR.h.
41 .IP "\fB--oldnames\fR"
42 Use old naming conventions.
44 .B Type library options:
46 Generate a type library.
47 .IP "\fB-T \fIfile\fR"
48 Define the name of the type library to be generated.
49 The default filename is \fIinfile\fR.tlb.
54 .IP "\fB-U \fIfile\fR"
55 Define the name of the UUID file to be generated.
56 The default filename is \fIinfile\fR_i.c.
58 .B Proxy/stub generation options:
61 .IP "\fB-C \fIfile\fR"
62 Name of client stub file (default is \fIinfile\fR_c.c)
65 .IP "\fB-P \fIfile\fR"
66 Name of proxy file (default is \fIinfile\fR_p.c)
67 .IP "\fB--prefix-all=\fIprefix\fR"
68 Prefix to put on the name of both client and server stubs.
69 .IP "\fB--prefix-client=\fIprefix\fR"
70 Prefix to put on the name of client stubs.
71 .IP "\fB--prefix-server=\fIprefix\fR"
72 Prefix to put on the name of server stubs.
75 .IP "\fB-S \fIfile\fR"
76 Name of server stub file (default is \fIinfile\fR_s.c)
78 .B Dlldata file options:
79 .IP "\fB--dlldata=\fIfile\fR"
80 Name of the dlldata file (default is dlldata.c)
82 .B Preprocessor options:
83 .IP "\fB-I \fIpath\fR"
84 Add a header search directory to path. Multiple search
85 directories are allowed.
86 .IP "\fB-D \fIid\fR[=\fIval\fR]"
87 Define preprocessor macro \fIid\fR with value \fIval\fR.
91 Do not preprocess input.
95 Enable pedantic warnings.
97 Set debug level to the non negative integer \fIn\fR. If
98 prefixed with \fB0x\fR, it will be interpreted as an hexadecimal
99 number. For the meaning of values, see the \fBDebug\fR section.
101 .B Miscellaneous options:
102 .IP "\fB--local-stubs=\fIfile\fR"
103 Generate empty stubs for call_as/local methods in an object interface and
104 write them to \fIfile\fR.
107 Debug level \fIn\fR is a bitmask with the following meaning:
108 * 0x01 Tell which resource is parsed (verbose mode)
109 * 0x02 Dump internal structures
110 * 0x04 Create a parser trace (yydebug=1)
111 * 0x08 Preprocessor messages
112 * 0x10 Preprocessor lex messages
113 * 0x20 Preprocessor yacc trace
116 is incomplete. Please file bug reports for this application at
117 .I http://bugs.winehq.org.
120 was originally written by Ove Kaaven. It has been improved by Rob Shearman,
121 Dan Hipschman, and others. For a complete list, see the git commit logs.
122 This man page was originally written by Hannu Valtonen and then updated by
125 The Winelib User Guide
127 The Wine Developers Guide