Patrik Stridvall ps@leissner.se writes:
I have resent winapi_install patch.
While it probably that you didn't apply it because of lack of time I resend for your convinience. If not please explain.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems you are not actually installing anything, only a script that needs the Wine source tree to work.
That is a correct conclusion.
I don't really see the point.
The point is that when you are in some sub directory of a wine tree, you can just write
winapi_check
or
make_filter
and whatever and it will call the correct version of the tool. Instead of having to type, if you are in dlls/winsock.
../../tools/winapi_check
Sure you can currently do
make winapi_check
or
make filter
and adding winapi_{extract,fixup} is trivial but giving arguments through make is a little awkward.
That why I wrote a few script to fix this and now when I have a tool (make_filter) that could possibly enjoy a wider use I decided to make a formalized "install" for them.
If you want to install something it should be a complete installation that works without external files (not that I suggest doing that for winapi_check, at least not by default).
A full install is largely meaningless since the winapi tools are made for work on a Wine source tree, so making them independant of such a tree is largely meaningless.
Well they actually are indendent of the specific tree they where install from. They do not reference to it at all. They use the current directory to find the real winapi tools in that tree.
They will work equally well with any tree (of a later date than your hopefull application of the patch that is).
They are as they are by design, not by mistake, and complete installation of them is almost completly meaningless.
Sure there might be future winapi tools worthy of a complete install, a future tool for automatical generation of .spec files from any Winelib application, that we talked about some time ago, comes to mind, but I'm not there quite yet. I have begun to implement simple typedef parsing but it doesn't work 100% yet.
In short, please apply it, they facillitates using the winapi tools alot and might make more people actually use them. They don't hurt anything.
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Patrik Stridvall