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.
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.
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)
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 meaning 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
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.
