Added support for path wildcards of the form "*dllname" in load order

[wine] / documentation / winelib-mfc.sgml

  <chapter id="mfc">
    <title id="mfc.title">Dealing with the MFC</title>

    <sect1 id="mfc-introduction">
      <title id="mfc-introduction.title">Introduction</title>
      <para>
        To use the MFC in a Winelib application you will first have to 
        recompile the MFC with Winelib. In theory it should be possible to 
        write a wrapper for the Windows MFC as described in 
        <xref linkend="bindlls" endterm="bindlls.title">. But in practice 
        it does not seem to be a realistic approach for the MFC: 
      </para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            the huge number of APIs makes writing the wrapper a big task in 
            itself.
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            furthermore the MFC contain a huge number of APIs which are tricky 
            to deal with when making a wrapper.
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            even once you have written the wrapper you will need to modify 
            the MFC headers so that the compiler does not choke on them.
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            a big part of the MFC code is actually in your application in 
            the form of macros. This means even more of the MFC headers have 
            to actually work to in order for you to be able to compile an 
            MFC based application.
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
      <para>
        This is why this guide includes a section dedicated to helping you 
        compile the MFC with Winelib.
      </para>
    </sect1>

    <sect1 id="mfc-legal-issues">
      <title id="mfc-legal-issues.title">Legal issues</title>
      <para>
        (Extracted from the HOWTO-Winelib written by Wilbur Dale 
        &lt;wilbur.dale@lumin.nl&gt;)
      </para>
      <para>
        The purpose of this section is to make you aware of potential legal 
        problems. Be sure to read your licenses and to consult your lawyers. 
        In any case you should not consider the remainder of this section to 
        be authoritative since it has not been written by a lawyer.
      </para>
      <para>
        Well, let's try to have a look at the situation anyway.
      </para>
      <para>
        During the compilation of your program, you will be combining code 
        from several sources: your code, Winelib code, Microsoft MFC code, 
        and possibly code from other vendor sources. As a result, you must 
        ensure that the licenses of all code sources are obeyed. What you are 
        allowed and not allowed to do can vary depending on how you compile 
        your program and if you will be distributing it. For example, if you 
        are releasing your code under the GPL, you cannot link your code to 
        MFC code because the GPL requires that you provide ALL sources to your 
        users. The MFC license forbids you from distributing the MFC source so 
        you cannot both distribute your program and comply with the GPL 
        license. On the other hand, if your code is released under the LGPL, 
        you cannot statically link your program to the MFC and distribute it, 
        but you can dynamically link your LGPL code and the MFC library and 
        distribute it.
      </para>
      <para>
        Wine/Winelib is distributed under an X11-like license. It places few 
        restrictions on the use and distribution of Wine/Winelib code. I doubt 
        the Wine license will cause you any problems. On the other hand, MFC 
        is distributed under a very restrictive license and the restrictions 
        vary from version to version and between service packs. There are 
        basically three aspects you must be aware of when using the MFC.
      </para>
      <para>
        First you must legally get MFC source code on your computer. The MFC 
        source code comes as a part of Visual Studio. The license for 
        Visual Studio implies it is a single product that can not
        be broken up into its components. So the cleanest way to get MFC on 
        your system is to buy Visual Studio and install it on a dual boot 
        Linux box.
      </para>
      <para>
        Then you must check that you are allowed to recompile MFC on a
        non-Microsoft operating system! This varies with the version of MFC. 
        The MFC license from Visual Studio 6.0 reads in part:
      </para>
      <blockquote>
        <para>
          1.1 General License Grant. Microsoft grants to you as an
          individual, a personal, nonexclusive license to make and use
          copies of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT for the sole purposes of designing,
          developing, and testing your software product(s) that are designed
          to operate in conjunction with any Microsoft operating system
          product. [Other unrelated stuff deleted.]
        </para>
      </blockquote>
      <para>
        So it appears you cannot even compile MFC for Winelib using this
        license. Fortunately the Visual Studio 6.0 service pack 3 license 
        reads (the Visual Studio 5.0 license is similar):
      </para>
      <blockquote>
        <para>
          1.1 General License Grant. Microsoft grants to you as an
          individual, a personal, nonexclusive license to make and use
          copies of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT for the purpose of designing,
          developing, and testing your software product(s). [Other unrelated
          stuff deleted]
        </para>
      </blockquote>
      <para>
        So under this license it appears you can compile MFC for Winelib.
      </para>
      <para>
        Finally you must check whether you have the right to distribute an 
        MFC library. Check the relevant section of the license on 
        <quote>redistributables and your redistribution rights</quote>. The 
        license seems to specify that you only have the right to distribute 
        binaries of the MFC library if it has no debug information and if 
        you distribute it with an application that provides significant 
        added functionality to the MFC library.
        <!-- FIXME: quote relevant sections of EULA in above paragraph. -->
      </para>
    </sect1>

    <sect1 id="mfc-compiling">
      <title id="mfc-compiling.title">Compiling the MFC</title>
      <para>
        Here is a set of recommendations for getting the MFC compiled with
        WineLib:
      </para>
      <para>
        We recommend running winemaker in
        '<option>--interactive</option>' mode to specify the right
        options for the MFC and the ATL part (to get the include paths
        right, to not consider the MFC MFC-based, and to get it to
        build libraries, not executables).
      </para>
      <para>
        Then when compiling it you will indeed need a number of
        <literal>_AFX_NO_XXX</literal> macros. But this is not enough
        and there are other things you will need to
        '<literal>#ifdef</literal>-out'.  For instance Wine's richedit
        support is not very good.  Here are the AFX options I use:
      </para>
      <para>
        <programlisting>
#define _AFX_PORTABLE
#define _FORCENAMELESSUNION
#define _AFX_NO_DAO_SUPPORT
#define _AFX_NO_DHTML_SUPPORT
#define _AFX_NO_OLEDB_SUPPORT
#define _AFX_NO_RICHEDIT_SUPPORT
        </programlisting>
      </para>
      <para>
        You will also need custom ones for
        <function>CMonikerFile</function>, <function>OleDB</function>,
        <function>HtmlView</function>, ...
      </para>
      <para>
        We recommend using Wine's msvcrt headers (<literal>-isystem
        $(WINE_INCLUDE_ROOT)/msvcrt</literal>), though it means you
        will have to temporarily disable winsock support
        (<literal>#ifdef</literal> it out in
        <filename>windows.h</filename>).
      </para>
      <para>
        You should use g++ compiler more recent than g++ 2.95. g++
        2.95 does not support unnamed structs while the more recent
        ones do, and this helps a lot. Here are the options worth
        mentioning:
        <itemizedlist>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              <literal>-fms-extensions</literal> (helps get more code
              to compile)
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              <literal>-fshort-wchar -DWINE_UNICODE_NATIVE</literal>
              (helps with Unicode support)
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              <literal>-DICOM_USE_COM_INTERFACE_ATTRIBUTE</literal>
              (to get the COM code to work)
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </itemizedlist>
      </para>
      <para>
        When you first reach the link stage you will get a lot of
        undefined symbol errors. To fix these you will need to go back
        to the source and <literal>#ifdef</literal>-out more code
        until you reach a 'closure'. There are also some files that
        don't need to be compiled.
      </para>
      <para>
        Maybe we will have ready-made makefile here someday...
      </para>
    </sect1>

    <sect1 id="mfc-using">
      <title id="mfc-using.title">Using the MFC</title>
      <para>
      </para>
      <para>
        Specific winemaker options, 
        the configure options, 
        the initialization problem...
      </para>
    </sect1>
  </chapter>

<!-- Keep this comment at the end of the file
Local variables:
mode: sgml
sgml-parent-document:("wine-doc.sgml" "book" "chapter" "")
End:
-->