Can we use Windows Kits idl files?

[James McDonnell]

Are the Windows Kits SDK WinRT .idl files acceptable to read-rework 
inside the wine source? They are akin to header files, no?

I asked on the irc but didn't get any reply.

There was a follow up comment asking about ReactOS headers as well:
> on the topic of headers, are we allowed to look at ReactOS NDK headerS
> s/headerS/headers/
> they contain internal structure definitions only, nothing else

Thank you,

James

[Bernhard Kölbl]

We are already actively using those files in Wine, just look at /include in
the tree. Though, not all of the ones from the Win Sdk may work right now,
so feel free to add the missing features to Widl.

--
Bernhard

James McDonnell  schrieb am Di., 29. Nov. 2022, 20:19:
> Are the Windows Kits SDK WinRT .idl files acceptable to read-rework
> inside the wine source? They are akin to header files, no?
>
> I asked on the irc but didn't get any reply.
>
> There was a follow up comment asking about ReactOS headers as well:
> > on the topic of headers, are we allowed to look at ReactOS NDK headerS
> > s/headerS/headers/
> > they contain internal structure definitions only, nothing else
>
> Thank you,
>
> James

[James McDonnell]

I didn't think those were taken/re-worked from those files directly. I 
thought they were reverse engineered from the MSDN docs and working with 
programs that implement those interfaces. But this clarifies that then. 
Thank you.

On 11/29/22 11:28, Bernhard Kölbl wrote:
> We are already actively using those files in Wine, just look at 
> /include in the tree. Though, not all of the ones from the Win Sdk may 
> work right now, so feel free to add the missing features to Widl.
>
> --
> Bernhard
>
> James McDonnell  schrieb am Di., 29. Nov. 2022, 
> 20:19:
> Are the Windows Kits SDK WinRT .idl files acceptable to read-rework
> inside the wine source? They are akin to header files, no?
>
> I asked on the irc but didn't get any reply.
>
> There was a follow up comment asking about ReactOS headers as well:
>
>  > on the topic of headers, are we allowed to look at ReactOS NDK
> headerS
>  > s/headerS/headers/
>  > they contain internal structure definitions only, nothing else
>
> Thank you,
>
> James