Compiling wine dlls for windows

[Michael Jung]

Hello,

I would like to test a wine dll I'm working on on windows. Could you please 
tell me how the wine dlls are build for windows ? (Or beat me to the the 
place where it is documented.)

Thanks,

[Steven Edwards]

Hi,

--- Michael Jung  wrote:
> I would like to test a wine dll I'm working on on windows. Could you please 
> tell me how the wine dlls are build for windows ? (Or beat me to the the 
> place where it is documented.)

Ivan has a script he uses and there are a few patches I keep in my tree. You can build on Windows
using Msys and Mingw. Or if you want to cross-compile from linux I can send you my compiler.

Get msys and from www.sourceforge.net/projects/mingw and the compiler versions that work best are
the ones listed here

http://reactos.com/wiki/index.php/Build_Environment

Older binutils have a forward exports bug that can cause problems.

You will also need a copy of flex and bison for windows. You can get them from here

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/mingwDTK-1.0.0-alpha-1.tar.gz

Thanks
Steven

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[Hans Leidekker]

On Thursday 24 February 2005 17:53, Michael Jung wrote:
> I would like to test a wine dll I'm working on on windows. Could you please
> tell me how the wine dlls are build for windows ? (Or beat me to the the
> place where it is documented.)

Among other possibilities, if you have an RPM based distro
you could use my MinGW cross compiler RPM packages, prebuilt
for Fedora Core and SUSE but also available as source RPMS
to rebuild yourself:

http://mirzam.it.vu.nl/mingw

You need to do an out-of-tree build for the Wine tools as
well as the PE build. Off the top of my head I repeat 
Alexandre's original recipe here: Assuming your wine
tree is at /sources/wine:

$ cd /sources
 $ mkdir wine-tools wine-pe
 $ cd wine-tools
 $ ../wine/configure && make depend && make tools
 $ cd ../wine-pe
 $ ../wine/configure --with-wine-tools=../wine-tools --host=i386-ming32
 $ make depend && make

The last step will spit out many errors mostly because
Wine targets Unix platforms, not a Windows platform like
MinGW. But most dlls will actually build if you ignore
the erros (make -k) or cd into the dll's directory first.

-Hans

[Dimitrie O. Paun]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 09:19:15PM +0100, Hans Leidekker wrote:
> Among other possibilities, if you have an RPM based distro
> you could use my MinGW cross compiler RPM packages, prebuilt
> for Fedora Core and SUSE but also available as source RPMS
> to rebuild yourself:

It may be a good idea to have these instructions included in
our Wine Devel docs. They seem to surface from time to time,
we could just point people to them.

[Michael Jung]

On Thursday 24 February 2005 21:19, Hans Leidekker wrote:
> On Thursday 24 February 2005 17:53, Michael Jung wrote:
> > I would like to test a wine dll I'm working on on windows. Could you
> > please tell me how the wine dlls are build for windows ? (Or beat me to
> > the the place where it is documented.)
>
> Among other possibilities, if you have an RPM based distro
> you could use my MinGW cross compiler RPM packages, prebuilt
> for Fedora Core and SUSE but also available as source RPMS
> to rebuild yourself:

Thanks for all the tips I've got on this one.

Bye,