documentation/winelib-mfc.sgml

   1   <chapter id="mfc">
   2     <title id="mfc.title">Dealing with the MFC</title>
   3
   4     <sect1 id="mfc-introduction">
   5       <title id="mfc-introduction.title">Introduction</title>
   6       <para>
   7         To use the MFC in a Winelib application you will first have to
   8         recompile the MFC with Winelib. In theory it should be possible to
   9         write a wrapper for the Windows MFC as described in
  10         <xref linkend="bindlls" endterm="bindlls.title">. But in practice
  11         it does not seem to be a realistic approach for the MFC:
  12       </para>
  13       <itemizedlist>
  14         <listitem>
  15           <para>
  16             the huge number of APIs makes writing the wrapper a big task in
  17             itself.
  18           </para>
  19         </listitem>
  20         <listitem>
  21           <para>
  22             furthermore the MFC contain a huge number of APIs which are tricky
  23             to deal with when making a wrapper.
  24           </para>
  25         </listitem>
  26         <listitem>
  27           <para>
  28             even once you have written the wrapper you will need to modify
  29             the MFC headers so that the compiler does not choke on them.
  30           </para>
  31         </listitem>
  32         <listitem>
  33           <para>
  34             a big part of the MFC code is actually in your application in
  35             the form of macros. This means even more of the MFC headers have
  36             to actually work to in order for you to be able to compile an
  37             MFC based application.
  38           </para>
  39         </listitem>
  40       </itemizedlist>
  41       <para>
  42         This is why this guide includes a section dedicated to helping you
  43         compile the MFC with Winelib.
  44       </para>
  45     </sect1>
  46
  47     <sect1 id="mfc-legal-issues">
  48       <title id="mfc-legal-issues.title">Legal issues</title>
  49       <para>
  50         (Extracted from the HOWTO-Winelib written by Wilbur Dale
  51         &lt;wilbur.dale@lumin.nl&gt;)
  52       </para>
  53       <para>
  54         The purpose of this section is to make you aware of potential legal
  55         problems. Be sure to read your licenses and to consult your lawyers.
  56         In any case you should not consider the remainder of this section to
  57         be authoritative since it has not been written by a lawyer.
  58       </para>
  59       <para>
  60         Well, let's try to have a look at the situation anyway.
  61       </para>
  62       <para>
  63         During the compilation of your program, you will be combining code
  64         from several sources: your code, Winelib code, Microsoft MFC code,
  65         and possibly code from other vendor sources. As a result, you must
  66         ensure that the licenses of all code sources are obeyed. What you are
  67         allowed and not allowed to do can vary depending on how you combine
  68         the code and if you will be distributing it. For example, if you
  69         are releasing your code under the GPL or LGPL, you cannot use MFC
  70         because these licenses do not allow covered code to depend on
  71         libraries with non-compatible licenses.
  72         There is a workaround - in the license for your
  73         code you can make an exception for the MFC library.
  74         For details see
  75         <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html">The GNU GPL FAQ</ulink>.
  76       </para>
  77       <para>
  78         Wine/Winelib is distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public
  79         License. See the license for restrictions on the modification and
  80         distribution of Wine/Winelib code. In general it is possible to
  81         satisfy these restrictions in any type of application.
  82         On the other hand, MFC
  83         is distributed under a very restrictive license and the restrictions
  84         vary from version to version and between service packs. There are
  85         basically three aspects you must be aware of when using the MFC.
  86       </para>
  87       <para>
  88         First you must legally get MFC source code on your computer. The MFC
  89         source code comes as a part of Visual Studio. The license for
  90         Visual Studio implies it is a single product that can not
  91         be broken up into its components. So the cleanest way to get MFC on
  92         your system is to buy Visual Studio and install it on a dual boot
  93         Linux box.
  94       </para>
  95       <para>
  96         Then you must check that you are allowed to recompile MFC on a
  97         non-Microsoft operating system! This varies with the version of MFC.
  98         The MFC license from Visual Studio 6.0 reads in part:
  99       </para>
 100       <blockquote>
 101         <para>
 102           1.1 General License Grant. Microsoft grants to you as an
 103           individual, a personal, nonexclusive license to make and use
 104           copies of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT for the sole purposes of designing,
 105           developing, and testing your software product(s) that are designed
 106           to operate in conjunction with any Microsoft operating system
 107           product. [Other unrelated stuff deleted.]
 108         </para>
 109       </blockquote>
 110       <para>
 111         So it appears you cannot even compile MFC for Winelib using this
 112         license. Fortunately the Visual Studio 6.0 service pack 3 license
 113         reads (the Visual Studio 5.0 license is similar):
 114       </para>
 115       <blockquote>
 116         <para>
 117           1.1 General License Grant. Microsoft grants to you as an
 118           individual, a personal, nonexclusive license to make and use
 119           copies of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT for the purpose of designing,
 120           developing, and testing your software product(s). [Other unrelated
 121           stuff deleted]
 122         </para>
 123       </blockquote>
 124       <para>
 125         So under this license it appears you can compile MFC for Winelib.
 126       </para>
 127       <para>
 128         Finally you must check whether you have the right to distribute an
 129         MFC library. Check the relevant section of the license on
 130         <quote>redistributables and your redistribution rights</quote>. The
 131         license seems to specify that you only have the right to distribute
 132         binaries of the MFC library if it has no debug information and if
 133         you distribute it with an application that provides significant
 134         added functionality to the MFC library.
 135         <!-- FIXME: quote relevant sections of EULA in above paragraph. -->
 136       </para>
 137     </sect1>
 138
 139     <sect1 id="mfc-compiling">
 140       <title id="mfc-compiling.title">Compiling the MFC</title>
 141       <para>
 142         Here is a set of recommendations for getting the MFC compiled with
 143         WineLib:
 144       </para>
 145       <para>
 146         We recommend running winemaker in
 147         '<option>--interactive</option>' mode to specify the right
 148         options for the MFC and the ATL part (to get the include paths
 149         right, to not consider the MFC MFC-based, and to get it to
 150         build libraries, not executables).
 151       </para>
 152       <para>
 153         Then when compiling it you will indeed need a number of
 154         <literal>_AFX_NO_XXX</literal> macros. But this is not enough
 155         and there are other things you will need to
 156         '<literal>#ifdef</literal>-out'.  For instance Wine's richedit
 157         support is not very good.  Here are the AFX options I use:
 158       </para>
 159       <para>
 160         <programlisting>
 161 #define _AFX_PORTABLE
 162 #define _FORCENAMELESSUNION
 163 #define _AFX_NO_DAO_SUPPORT
 164 #define _AFX_NO_DHTML_SUPPORT
 165 #define _AFX_NO_OLEDB_SUPPORT
 166 #define _AFX_NO_RICHEDIT_SUPPORT
 167         </programlisting>
 168       </para>
 169       <para>
 170         You will also need custom ones for
 171         <function>CMonikerFile</function>, <function>OleDB</function>,
 172         <function>HtmlView</function>, ...
 173       </para>
 174       <para>
 175         We recommend using Wine's msvcrt headers (<literal>-isystem
 176         $(WINE_INCLUDE_ROOT)/msvcrt</literal>), though it means you
 177         will have to temporarily disable winsock support
 178         (<literal>#ifdef</literal> it out in
 179         <filename>windows.h</filename>).
 180       </para>
 181       <para>
 182         You should use g++ compiler more recent than g++ 2.95. g++
 183         2.95 does not support unnamed structs while the more recent
 184         ones do, and this helps a lot. Here are the options worth
 185         mentioning:
 186         <itemizedlist>
 187           <listitem>
 188             <para>
 189               <literal>-fms-extensions</literal> (helps get more code
 190               to compile)
 191             </para>
 192           </listitem>
 193           <listitem>
 194             <para>
 195               <literal>-fshort-wchar -DWINE_UNICODE_NATIVE</literal>
 196               (helps with Unicode support)
 197             </para>
 198           </listitem>
 199           <listitem>
 200             <para>
 201               <literal>-DICOM_USE_COM_INTERFACE_ATTRIBUTE</literal>
 202               (to get the COM code to work)
 203             </para>
 204           </listitem>
 205         </itemizedlist>
 206       </para>
 207       <para>
 208         When you first reach the link stage you will get a lot of
 209         undefined symbol errors. To fix these you will need to go back
 210         to the source and <literal>#ifdef</literal>-out more code
 211         until you reach a 'closure'. There are also some files that
 212         don't need to be compiled.
 213       </para>
 214       <para>
 215         Maybe we will have ready-made makefile here someday...
 216       </para>
 217     </sect1>
 218
 219     <sect1 id="mfc-using">
 220       <title id="mfc-using.title">Using the MFC</title>
 221       <para>
 222       </para>
 223       <para>
 224         Specific winemaker options,
 225         the configure options,
 226         the initialization problem...
 227       </para>
 228     </sect1>
 229   </chapter>
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