On Thu, 31 Mar 2004, greensh@knology.net wrote:
Hi,
I'm starting to use the latest winelib (wine-20040309 release) to try eventually compiling an windows MFC app I wrote. Before attempting this however, I'm following all directions in the winelib user guide, but the Test Drive fails and so it tells me to post to this mailing list.
The problem is that the Winelib User Guide is very out of date. winemaker has been changed recently and no longer integrates with autoconf. Also it uses winegcc and winebuild instead of calling gcc directly.
Finally it does not support dlls though now that the required support has been added to winegcc it should be possible.
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winebuild -o winemine2.exe.dbg.c --debug -C. dialog.c main.c winegcc -c -mno-cygwin -I. -o winemine2.exe.dbg.o winemine2.exe.dbg.c winegcc -c -mno-cygwin -I. -o dialog.o dialog.c winegcc -c -mno-cygwin -I. -o main.o main.c wrc -I. -foEn.res En.rc En.rc:23:22: Error: syntax error
However this error has nothing to do with the above issues.
winemaker automatically creates Makefiles by analyzing the source code. However this is an impossible task to get right in 100% of the cases (even for a human can be hard to do right). So some heuristics are used that work most of the time.
Unfortunately the person who wrote the 'Test Drive' chose a case where the heuristics fail and did not mention it. The error is caused by the presence of multiple rc files (maybe there was only one rc file at the time the Test Driver was written). Only one RC file is supposed to be compiled but winemaker does not know that and wouldn't know which one is supposed to be compiled anyway.
So it tries to compile them all and this is what causes the error. Just edit the generated Makefile and edit the list of RC files so only rsrc.rc is listed and it should work better.