NAME
widl - Wine Interface Definition Language (IDL) compiler
SYNOPSIS
widl [options] infile.idl
widl [options] --dlldata-only name1 [name2 ...]
DESCRIPTION
When no options are used the program will generate a header file, and
possibly client and server stubs, proxy and dlldata files, a typelib,
and a UUID file, depending on the contents of the IDL file. If any of
the options -c, -h, -p, -s, -t, -u, or --local-stubs are given, widl
will only generate the requested files, and no others. When run with
--dlldata-only, widl will only generate a dlldata file, and it will
contain a list of the names passed as arguments. Usually the way this
file is updated is that each time widl is run, it reads any existing
dlldata file, and if necessary regenerates it with the same list of
names, but with the present proxy file included.
When run without any arguments, widl will print a help message.
OPTIONS
General options:
-V Print version number and exit.
Header options:
-h Generate header files.
-H file
Name of header file to generate. The default header filename is
infile.h.
--oldnames
Use old naming conventions.
Type library options:
-t Generate a type library.
-T file
Define the name of the type library to be generated. The
default filename is infile.tlb.
UUID file options:
-u Generate a UUID file.
-U file
Define the name of the UUID file to be generated. The default
filename is infile_i.c.
Proxy/stub generation options:
-c Generate client stub.
-C file
Name of client stub file (default is infile_c.c)
-p Generate proxy.
-P file
Name of proxy file (default is infile_p.c)
--prefix-all=prefix
Prefix to put on the name of both client and server stubs.
--prefix-client=prefix
Prefix to put on the name of client stubs.
--prefix-server=prefix
Prefix to put on the name of server stubs.
-s Generate server stub.
-S file
Name of server stub file (default is infile_s.c)
Dlldata file options:
--dlldata=file
Name of the dlldata file (default is dlldata.c)
Preprocessor options:
-I path
Add a header search directory to path. Multiple search
directories are allowed.
-D id[=val]
Define preprocessor macro id with value val.
-E Preprocess only.
-N Do not preprocess input.
Debug options:
-W Enable pedantic warnings.
-d n Set debug level to the non negative integer n. If prefixed with
0x, it will be interpreted as an hexadecimal number. For the
meaning of values, see the Debug section.
Miscellaneous options:
--local-stubs=file
Generate empty stubs for call_as/local methods in an object
interface and write them to file.
Debug
Debug level n is a bitmask with the following meaning:
* 0x01 Tell which resource is parsed (verbose mode)
* 0x02 Dump internal structures
* 0x04 Create a parser trace (yydebug=1)
* 0x08 Preprocessor messages
* 0x10 Preprocessor lex messages
* 0x20 Preprocessor yacc trace
BUGS
widl is incomplete. Please file bug reports for this application at
http://bugs.winehq.org.
AUTHORS
widl was originally written by Ove Kaaven. It has been improved by Rob
Shearman, Dan Hipschman, and others. For a complete list, see the git
commit logs. This man page was originally written by Hannu Valtonen
and then updated by Dan Hipschman.
SEE ALSO
The Winelib User Guide
The Wine Developers Guide