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NAME

       widl - Wine Interface Definition Language (IDL) compiler

SYNOPSIS

       widl [options] infile.idl
       widl [options] --dlldata-only name1 [name2 ...]

DESCRIPTION

       When no options are used the program will generate a header file, and possibly client and server stubs, proxy and dlldata files, a typelib,
       and a UUID file, depending on the contents of the IDL file.  If any of the options -c, -h, -p, -s, -t, -u, or --local-stubs are given, widl
       will  only  generate the requested files, and no others.  When run with --dlldata-only, widl will only generate a dlldata file, and it will
       contain a list of the names passed as arguments.  Usually the way this file is updated is that each time widl is run, it reads any existing
       dlldata file, and if necessary regenerates it with the same list of names, but with the present proxy file included.

       When run without any arguments, widl will print a help message.

OPTIONS

       General options:

       -V     Print version number and exit.

       -b cpu-manufacturer[-kernel]-os
	      Set  the	target	architecture when cross-compiling. The target specification is in the standard autoconf format as returned by con-
	      fig.sub.

       Header options:

       -h     Generate header files.

       -H file
	      Name of header file to generate. The default header filename is infile.h.

       --oldnames
	      Use old naming conventions.

       Type library options:

       -t     Generate a type library.

       -T file
	      Define the name of the type library to be generated.  The default filename is infile.tlb.

       -m32, -m64
	      Generate a Win32, respectively Win64, type library.

       UUID file options:

       -u     Generate a UUID file.

       -U file
	      Define the name of the UUID file to be generated.  The default filename is infile_i.c.

       Proxy/stub generation options:

       -c     Generate client stub.

       -C file
	      Name of client stub file (default is infile_c.c)

       -p     Generate proxy.

       -P file
	      Name of proxy file (default is infile_p.c)

       --prefix-all=prefix
	      Prefix to put on the name of both client and server stubs.

       --prefix-client=prefix
	      Prefix to put on the name of client stubs.

       --prefix-server=prefix
	      Prefix to put on the name of server stubs.

       -s     Generate server stub.

       -S file
	      Name of server stub file (default is infile_s.c)

       --win32, --win64
	      Only generate 32-bit, respectively 64-bit code (the default is to generate both 32-bit and 64-bit versions into the same destination
	      file).

       Dlldata file options:

       --dlldata=file
	      Name of the dlldata file (default is dlldata.c)

       Preprocessor options:

       -I path
	      Add a header search directory to path. Multiple search directories are allowed.

       -D id[=val]
	      Define preprocessor macro id with value val.

       -E     Preprocess only.

       -N     Do not preprocess input.

       Debug options:

       -W     Enable pedantic warnings.

       -d n   Set debug level to the non negative integer n.  If prefixed with 0x, it will be interpreted as an hexadecimal number.  For the mean-
	      ing of values, see the Debug section.

       Miscellaneous options:

       --local-stubs=file
	      Generate empty stubs for call_as/local methods in an object interface and write them to file.

Debug
       Debug level n is a bitmask with the following meaning:
	   * 0x01 Tell which resource is parsed (verbose mode)
	   * 0x02 Dump internal structures
	   * 0x04 Create a parser trace (yydebug=1)
	   * 0x08 Preprocessor messages
	   * 0x10 Preprocessor lex messages
	   * 0x20 Preprocessor yacc trace

BUGS

       widl is incomplete.  Please file bug reports for this application at http://bugs.winehq.org.

AUTHORS

       widl was originally written by Ove Kaaven.  It has been improved by Rob Shearman, Dan Hipschman, and others.  For a complete list, see  the
       git commit logs.  This man page was originally written by Hannu Valtonen and then updated by Dan Hipschman.

SEE ALSO

       The Winelib User Guide
       The Wine Developers Guide

Wine 1.2-rc6							   October 2007 							   WIDL(1)