Re: [PATCH 0/6] MR570: widl: Cleanup in preparation for sharing lexer and parser with some midl.exe program.

[Jacek Caban (＠jacek)]

On Mon Aug  1 20:12:23 2022 +0000, R��mi Bernon wrote:
> Well, I think it sounds very much an ad-hoc solution to solve a problem
> for which we have all the necessary tools already with winetest.
> I also believe that having a builtin midl.exe, command-line compatible
> with native midl.exe, may be interesting for some use cases. I intend to
> make it as much compatible as the basic tests will require it to be, but
> it could be later extended.

What interesting use cases do you mean? Note that one may just build widl as PE if it's just for sake of running widl on Windows. So far you only mentioned being able to test parser failures.

I think that it would be generally more interesting to make widl itself more compatible with midl.