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  <chapter id="winelib-introduction">
    <title id="introduction.title">Winelib Introduction</title>

    <sect1 id="winelib-whatis">
      <title>What is Winelib?</title>

      <para>
        Winelib is a development toolkit which allows you to compile your
        Windows applications on Unix.
      </para>
      <para>
        Most of Winelib's code consists of the Win32 API implementation.
        Fortunately this part is 100 percent shared with Wine. The remainder
        consists of Windows compatible headers and tools like the resource
        compiler (and even these are used when compiling Wine).
      </para>
      <para>
        Thanks to the above, Winelib supports most C and C++ 32bit source code,
        resource and message files, and can generate graphical or console
        applications as well as dynamic libraries.
      </para>
      <para>
        What is not supported is 16bit source code as the types it depends on
        (especially segmented pointers) are not supported by Unix compilers.
        Also missing are some of the more exotic features of Microsoft's
        compiler like native COM support and structured exception handling.
        So you may need to perform some modifications in your code when
        recompiling your application with Winelib. This guide is here to help
        you in this task.
      </para>
      <para>
        What you gain by recompiling your application with Winelib is the
        ability to make calls to Unix APIs, directly from your
        Windows source code. This allows for a better integration with the
        Unix environment than is allowed by running an unmodified Windows
        application running in Wine. Another benefit is that a Winelib
        application can relatively easily be recompiled on a non-Intel
        architecture and run there without the need for a slow software
        emulation of the processor.
      </para>
    </sect1>

    <sect1 id="winelib-requirements">
      <title id="requirements.title">System requirements</title>
      <para>
        The requirements for Winelib are similar to those for Wine.
      </para>
      <para>
        Basically if you can run Wine on your computer then you can run
        Winelib. But the converse is not true. You can also build Winelib
        and Winelib applications on platforms not supported by Wine,
        typically platforms with a non i386 processor. But this is still
        pretty much uncharted territory. It would be more reasonable to
        target one of the more mundane i386-based platforms first.
      </para>
      <para>
        The main difference is that the compiler becomes much more important.
        It is highly recommended that you use gcc, g++, and the GNU binutils. 
        The more recent your gcc compiler the better.
        For any serious amount of code you should not consider anything older
        than gcc 2.95.2. The latest gcc snapshots contain some useful bug
        fixes and much better support for anonymous structs and unions. This
        can help reduce the number of changes you have to do in your code but
        these are not stable releases of the compiler so you may not want to
        use them in production.
      </para>
    </sect1>

    <sect1 id="winelib-getting-started">
      <title id="getting-started.title">Getting Started</title>

      <sect2 id="winemaker-introduction">
        <title id="winemaker-introduction.title">Winemaker introduction</title>
        <para>
          So what is needed to compile a Windows application with Winelib?
          Well, it really depends on the complexity of your application but
          here are some issues that are shared by all applications:
        </para>
        <itemizedlist>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              the case of your files may be bad. For example they could be
              in all caps: <filename>HELLO.C</filename>. It's not very nice to
              work with and probably not what you intended.
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              then the case of the filenames in your include statements may be
              wrong: maybe they include 'Windows.h' instead of 'windows.h'.
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              your include statements may use '\' instead of '/'. '\' is not
              recognized by Unix compilers while '/' is recognized in both
              environments.
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              you will need to perform the usual Dos to Unix text file conversion
              otherwise you'll get in trouble when the compiler considers that
              your '\' is not at the end of the line since it is followed by a
              pesky carriage return.
            </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>
              you will have to write new makefiles.
            </para>
          </listitem>
        </itemizedlist>

        <para>
          The best way to take care of all these issues is to use winemaker.
        </para>
        <para>
          Winemaker is a perl script which is designed to help you bootstrap
          the conversion of your Windows projects to Winelib. In order to do
          this it will go analyze your code, fixing the issues listed above
          and generate autoconf-based Makefiles.
        </para>
        <para>
          Let's suppose that Wine/Winelib has been installed in the
          <filename class="Directory">/usr/local/wine</filename>
          directory, and that you are already in the top directory of your
          sources. Then converting your project to Winelib may be as simple
          as just running the three commands below (note the dot indicating
          current directory at the end of the first command):
        </para>
        <programlisting>
          $ winemaker --lower-uppercase .
          $ ./configure --with-wine=/usr/local/wine
          $ make
        </programlisting>

        <para>
          But of course things are not always that simple which is why we have
          this guide at all.
        </para>
      </sect2>

      <sect2 id="winemaker-test">
        <title id="winemaker-test.title">Test Drive</title>

        <para>
          Before starting to work on a big project you may want to try to port a
          small application. The winemine application from the Wine source tree
          suits well for testing purposes. It can be found in the programs
          subdirectory. winemine is a simple application, but has a few C,
          header and resource files.
        </para>
        <para>
          Run <command>make clean</command> in the
          winemine source directory if it contains results of previous builds.
          Create a separate directory with name winemine2, so it won't conflict
          with the Wine copy of the application. Copy the sources of winemine
          (files *.c, *.h, *.rc) to this directory. Now run the commands,
          mentioned above from the winemine2 directory:
        </para>
        <programlisting>
          $ winemaker --lower-uppercase .
          $ ./configure --with-wine=/usr/local/wine
          $ make
        </programlisting>

        <para>
          You are done! Now you can start the application as
          <command>./winemine2</command>.
        </para>
        <para>
          If you come across problems preparing and building this application
          this probably means that winemaker utility is broken by some changes
          in Wine. Try asking for help on <email>wine-devel@winehq.org</email>
        </para>
      </sect2>

      <sect2 id="winemaker-guide">
        <title id="winemaker-guide.title">Step by step guide</title>

        <para>
          Let's retrace the steps above in more details.
        </para>
        <variablelist>
          <varlistentry>
            <term><option>Getting the source</option></term>
            <listitem>
              <para>
                First if you can try to get the sources together with the
                executables/libraries that they build. In the current state of
                winemaker having these around can help it guess what it is that
                your project is trying to build. Later, when it is able to
                understand Visual C++ projects, and if you use them, this will
                no longer be necessary. Usually the executables and libraries
                are in a <filename class="Directory">Release</filename> or
                <filename class="Directory">Debug</filename> subdirectory of the
                directory where the sources are. So it's best if you can
                transfer the source files and either of these directories to
                Linux. Note that you don't need to transfer the
                <filename>.obj</filename>, <filename>.pch</filename>,
                <filename>.sbr</filename> and other files that also reside in
                these directories; especially as they tend to be quite big.
              </para>
            </listitem>
          </varlistentry>
          <varlistentry>
            <term><option>cd &lt;root_dir&gt;</option></term>
            <listitem>
              <para>
                Then go to the root directory where are your source files.
                Winemaker can deal with a whole directory hierarchy at once so
                you don't need to go into a leaf directory, quite the contrary.
                Winemaker will automatically generate makefiles in each
                directory where one is required, and will generate a global
                makefile so that you can rebuild all your executables and
                libraries with a single <command>make</command> command.
              </para>
            </listitem>
          </varlistentry>
          <varlistentry>
            <term><option>Making the source writable</option></term>
            <listitem>
              <para>
                Then make sure you have write access to your sources. It may
                sound obvious, but if you copied your source files from a
                CD-ROM or if they are in Source Safe on Windows, chances are
                that they will be read-only.
                But Winemaker needs write access so that it can fix them. You
                can arrange that by running <command>chmod -R u+w .</command>.
                Also you will want to make sure that you have a backup copy of
                your sources in case something went horribly wrong, or more
                likely, just for reference at a later point. If you use a
                version control system you're already covered.
              </para>
              <para>
                If you have already modified your source files and you want
                to make sure that winemaker will not make further changes to
                them then you can use the --nosource-fix option to protect
                them.
              </para>
            </listitem>
          </varlistentry>
          <varlistentry>
            <term><option>Running winemaker</option></term>
            <listitem>
              <para>
                Then you'll run winemaker. Here are the options you will most
                likely want to use. For complete list of options see
                the winemaker man page.
              </para>
              <variablelist>
                <varlistentry>
                  <term><option>--lower-uppercase</option></term>
                  <term><option>--lower-all</option></term>
                  <listitem>
                    <para>
                      These options specify how to deal with files, and
                      directories, that have an 'incorrect' case.
                      <option>--lower-uppercase</option> specifies they should
                      only be renamed if their name is all uppercase. So files
                      that have a mixed case, like 'Hello.c' would not be
                      renamed. <option>--lower-all</option> will rename any
                      file. If neither is specified then no file or directory
                      will be renamed, almost. As you will see
                      <link linkend="renaming">later</link> winemaker may
                      still have to rename some files.
                    </para>
                  </listitem>
                </varlistentry>
                <varlistentry>
                  <term><option>--nobackup</option></term>
                  <listitem>
                    <para>
                      Winemaker normally makes a backup of all the files in which
                      it does more than the standard Dos to Unix conversion.
                      But if you already have (handy) copies of these files
                      elsewhere you may not need these so you should use this
                      option.
                    </para>
                  </listitem>
                </varlistentry>
                <varlistentry>
                  <term><option>--dll</option></term>
                  <term><option>--console</option></term>
                  <listitem>
                    <para>
                      These option lets winemaker know what kind of target you are
                      building. If you have the windows library in your source
                      hierarchy then you should not need to specify
                      <option>--dll</option>. But if you have console executables
                      then you will need to use the corresponding option.
                    </para>
                  </listitem>
                </varlistentry>
                <varlistentry>
                  <term><option>--mfc</option></term>
                  <listitem>
                    <para>
                      This option tells winemaker that you are building an MFC
                      application/library.
                    </para>
                  </listitem>
                </varlistentry>
                <varlistentry>
                  <term><option>-Dmacro[=defn]</option></term>
                  <term><option>-Idir</option></term>
                  <term><option>-Ldir</option></term>
                  <term><option>-idll</option></term>
                  <term><option>-llibrary</option></term>
                  <listitem>
                    <para>
                      The <option>-i</option> specifies a Winelib library to
                      import via the <link linkend="spec-file">spec file</>
                      mechanism. Contrast this with the <option>-l</option>
                      which specifies a Unix library to link with. The other
                      options work the same way they would with a C
                      compiler. All are applied to all the targets found.
                      When specifying a directory with either
                      <option>-I</option> or <option>-L</option>, winemaker
                      will prefix a relative path with
                      <literal>$(TOPDIRECTORY)/</literal> so that it is valid
                      from any of the source directories. You can also use a
                      variable in the path yourself if you wish (but don't
                      forget to escape the '$'). For instance you could specify
                      <literal>-I\$(WINELIB_INCLUDE_ROOT)/msvcrt</literal>.
                    </para>
                  </listitem>
                </varlistentry>
              </variablelist>
              <para>
                So your command may finally look like:
                <literal>winemaker --lower-uppercase -Imylib/include .</literal>
              </para>
            </listitem>
          </varlistentry>
          <varlistentry>
            <term id="renaming"><option>File renaming</option></term>
            <listitem>
              <para>
                When you execute winemaker it will first rename files to bring
                their character case in line with your expectations and so that they can
                be processed by the makefiles. This later category implies that
                files with a non lowercase extension will be renamed so that the
                extension is in lowercase. So, for instance,
                <filename>HELLO.C</filename> will be renamed to
                <filename>HELLO.c</filename>. Also if a file or directory name
                contains a space or a dollar, then this
                character will be replaced with an underscore. This is because
                these characters cause problems with current versions of autoconf
                (2.13) and make (3.79).
              </para>
            </listitem>
          </varlistentry>
          <varlistentry>
            <term><option>Source modifications and makefile generation</option></term>
            <listitem>
              <para>
                winemaker will then proceed to modify the source files so that
                they will compile more readily with Winelib. As it does so it
                may print warnings when it has to make a guess or identifies a
                construct that it cannot correct. Finally it will generate the
                autoconf-based makefiles. Once all this is done you can review
                the changes that winemaker did to your files by using
                <command>diff -uw</command>. For instance:
                <command>diff -uw hello.c.bak hello.c</command>
              </para>
            </listitem>
          </varlistentry>
          <varlistentry>
            <term><option>Running the configure script</option></term>
            <listitem>
              <para>
                Before you run <command>make</command> you must run the
                autoconf <command>configure</command> script. The goal of this
                step is to analyze your system and generate customized
                makefiles from the <filename>Makefile.in</filename> files. This
                is also when you have to tell where Winelib resides on your
                system. If wine is installed in a single directory or you have
                the Wine sources compiled somewhere then you can just run
                <command>./configure --with-wine=/usr/local/bin</command>
                or <command>./configure --with-wine=~/wine</command>
                respectively.
              </para>
            </listitem>
          </varlistentry>
          <varlistentry>
            <term><option>Running make</option></term>
            <listitem>
              <para>
                This is a pretty simple step: just type <command>make</command>
                and voila, you should have all your executables and libraries.
                If this did not work out, then it means that you will have to
                read this guide further to:
                <itemizedlist>
                  <listitem>
                    <para>
                      review the <filename>Makefile.in</filename> files to
                      adjust the default compilation and link options set by
                      winemaker. See the <xref linkend="source-analysis"
                      endterm="source-analysis.title"> section for some hints.
                    </para>
                  </listitem>
                  <listitem>
                    <para>
                      fix the portability issues in your sources. See
                      <xref linkend="portability-issues"
                            endterm="portability-issues.title"> for more details.
                    </para>
                  </listitem>
                </itemizedlist>
              </para>
              <para>
                If you find yourself modifying the Makefile.in to specify the
                location of the Wine header or library files then go back to
                the previous step (the configure script) and use the various
                --with-wine-* options to specify where they are.
              </para>
            </listitem>
          </varlistentry>
        </variablelist>
      </sect2>
    </sect1>
  </chapter>

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