widl - Wine Interface Definition Language (IDL) compiler

widl was originally written by Ove Kåven.  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.

widl is part  of  the  Wine  distribution,  which  is  available  through  WineHQ,  the  Winedevelopmentheadquarters.

       Bugs can be reported on the Winebugtracker.

       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

       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 is 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.

       widl - Wine Interface Definition Language (IDL) compiler

Generaloptions:-V     Print version number and exit.

       -o,--output=name
              Set  the  name  of the output file. When generating multiple output files, this sets only the base
              name of the file; the respective output files are then named name.h, name_p.c,  etc.   If  a  full
              file name with extension is specified, only that file is generated.

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

       -m32,-m64,--win32,--win64
              Force the target architecture to 32-bit or 64-bit.

       --sysroot=dir
              Prefix the standard include paths with dir.

       --nostdinc
              Do not search standard include paths like /usr/include and /usr/local/include.

       Headeroptions:-h     Generate header files. The default output filename is infile.h.

       --oldnames
              Use old naming conventions.

       Typelibraryoptions:-t     Generate a type library. The default output filename is infile.tlb.  If the output file name  ends
              in .res, a binary resource file containing the type library is generated instead.

       UUIDfileoptions:-u     Generate a UUID file. The default output filename is infile_i.c.

       Proxy/stubgenerationoptions:-c     Generate a client stub file. The default output filename is infile_c.c.

       -Os    Generate inline stubs.

       -Oi    Generate old-style interpreted stubs.

       -Oif,-Oic,-Oicf
              Generate new-style fully interpreted stubs.

       -p     Generate a proxy. The default output filename 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 a server stub file. The default output filename is infile_s.c.

       --winrt
              Enable Windows Runtime mode.

       --ns_prefix
              Prefix namespaces with ABI namespace.

       Registrationscriptoptions:-r     Generate  a  registration  script. The default output filename is infile_r.rgs. If the output file
              name ends in .res, a binary resource file containing the script is generated instead.

       Dlldatafileoptions:--dlldata-onlyname1 [name2...]
              Regenerate the dlldata file from scratch using the  specified  proxy  names.  The  default  output
              filename is dlldata.c.

       Preprocessoroptions:-Ipath
              Add a header search directory to path. Multiple search directories are allowed.

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

       -E     Preprocess only.

       -N     Do not preprocess input.

       Debugoptions:-W     Enable pedantic warnings.

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

       Miscellaneousoptions:-app_config
              Ignored, present for midl compatibility.

       --acf=file
              Use specified application configuration file.

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

Winedocumentationandsupport.

Wine 6.0                                          October 2007                                           WIDL(1)

widl [options] IDL_filewidl [options] --dlldata-onlyname1 [name2...]