Re: WineLib and DLLs (Winedump)

The README section on inserting the stub dll into the wine tree
seems a little out-dated.  It tells me to run autoconf, but
autoconf complains that it cannot find configure.in - is this
step still needed?

If I skip autoconf (which may be causing this problem), when
I run make depend I get:

cd `dirname dlls/__depend__` && make depend
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/stevenlu/wine/dlls'
cd `dirname errh_auto/__depend__` && make depend
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/stevenlu/wine/dlls/errh_auto'
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `depend'.  Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/stevenlu/wine/dlls/errh_auto'
make[1]: *** [errh_auto/__depend__] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/stevenlu/wine/dlls'
make: *** [dlls/__depend__] Error 2

I ran the install script that winedump produced, but maybe that's
not up-to-date with respect to the current wine build process?
Or am I just doing something else wrong?

-Steve

Jon Griffiths                                                                                                                                                                           
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Hi,
> I'm writing a WineLib DLL that makes calls in my own Windows DLLs
> (not Wine's DLLs).  I have the header files for those DLLs, and the
> Windows binaries for them.  How do I link to them?  Do I need to

wrap
> them in spec files?  What do I need to put into my Makefile.in?

look at tools/winedump. In spec mode it will generate everything you
need to link to this dll - a makefile and dummy implementation, spec
file and a script to insert it into your existing WINE tree (to link
with). The README gives instructions for exactly this case (and some
other more advanced ones).

Cheers,
Jon

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WineLib and DLLs (Winedump)

[Jon]

Hi Steve,

On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 18:57, [e-mail] wrote:
> The README section on inserting the stub dll into the wine tree
> seems a little out-dated.  It tells me to run autoconf, but
> autoconf complains that it cannot find configure.in - is this
> step still needed?

Yes, any time that you add or delete directories to the base distribution you 
need to re-run autoconf to generate a new configure script.

In your case you are running an older version of autoconf. Make sure that you 
are running autoconf version 2.53 or higher, or this process will not work.

There was a thread a while ago on allowing earlier versions of autoconf to be 
used to build Wine, but its not seen as too onerous to require a recent 
version for developers.
> If I skip autoconf (which may be causing this problem), when
> I run make depend I get:

<snip>

Yes, you have the dll directory and a Makefile.in in there, but no Makefile, 
since configure didn't get updated and generate one for you.
> I ran the install script that winedump produced, but maybe that's
> not up-to-date with respect to the current wine build process?

I updated the build process following the big changes earlier this year for 
building on Win32. I don't believe there are any problems, but there have 
been some changes since then. If you have any issues let me know and I'll try 
and iron them out. If I get a moment I'll update the README on requiring a 
new autoconf also.

I was considering allowing generated DLL'd to be built out of the tree but I 
didn't want to be generating too many files from winebuild (and autoconf 
files for a whole new dll project can be quite large).

Cheers,
Jon