SYNOPSIS

        [] .idl
        []   [ ...]

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 , , , , , , or   are  given,
       will  only  generate the requested files, and no others.  When run with
       , 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  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,  will print a help message.

OPTIONS

            Print version number and exit.

            Generate header files.

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

              Use old naming conventions.

            Generate a type library.

              Define  the  name  of  the  type  library  to be generated.  The
              default filename is .tlb.

            Generate a UUID file.

              Define the name of the UUID file to be generated.   The  default
              filename is _i.c.

            Generate client stub.

              Name of client stub file (default is _c.c)
            Generate proxy.

              Name of proxy file (default is _p.c)

              Prefix to put on the name of both client and server stubs.

              Prefix to put on the name of client stubs.

              Prefix to put on the name of server stubs.
            Generate server stub.

              Name of server stub file (default is _s.c)


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


              Add  a header search directory to path. Multiple search directo-
              ries are allowed.
        [=]
              Define preprocessor macro  with value .
            Preprocess only.
            Do not preprocess input.

            Enable pedantic warnings.
           Set debug level to the non negative integer .  If prefixed with
              ,  it  will  be interpreted as an hexadecimal number.  For the
              meaning of values, see the  section.


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

Debug

       Debug level  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

         is  incomplete.   Please file bug reports for this application at

AUTHORS

        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 1.1.9                       October 2007