[PATCH v2 vkd3d 1/4] build: Drop hack for stripping RPC includes from widl-generated headers.

[Sveinar Søpler]

Hmm. I guess its the fakeroot environment that does something weird when building package with dpkg-buildpackage, cos running regular "configure" does not show this error. 
config.log using dpkg-buildpackage reads:
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configure:4562: result: '/usr/lib/wine/widl'
configure:4572: checking checking whether widl version >= 3.20
configure:4610: result: no ()
--
Outside of the fakeroot env, widl is a symlink from /usr/bin/widl -> /etc/alternatives/widl -> /usr/bin/widl-stable -> ../lib/wine/widl
I guess some of this symlinkery fails in the fakeroot, even tho configure finds the actual binary in /usr/lib/wine/widl. Ill dig a bit and see what i can figure out.

I maintain a Launchpad PPA for vkd3d packages, and i must say it's a shame vkd3d cant be built for Ubuntu bionic/cosmic on launchpad anymore.

I talked a wee bit with DiMesio about building vkd3d for wine-devel on the OBS, but did not come to an agreement with her about placements of libraries. But since vkd3d can't be built on launchpad anymore i might look more into using OBS for bionic/cosmic packages perhaps. If it is of any interest, i'm willing to discuss it some more.

I would however say that if it should become a "winehq provided package", it should be possible to use it for something. As of now, release 1.1 does not work with anything and should probably not be used for this. Best option would be to have the two "hack patches" needed for WoW to work implemented + do a release 1.2 with that. Why? Yeah, cos if the packages are actually included with wine-devel it would be nice to have it support playing WoW :)

Sveinar Søpler

----- Original Message -----
From: "joseph kucia" <joseph.kucia at gmail.com>
To: "Sveinar Søpler" <cybermax at dexter.no>
Cc: "wine-devel" <wine-devel at winehq.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:13:52 AM
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 vkd3d 1/4] build: Drop hack for stripping RPC includes from widl-generated headers.

On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 11:12 PM Sveinar Søpler <cybermax at dexter.no> wrote:
>
> There is some strangeness with the configure check of widl i think?
> --
> checking checking whether widl version >= 3.20... ./configure: line 4574: '/usr/lib/wine/widl': No such file or directory
> no ()
> configure: WARNING: widl is required to build header files.
> --
> :$ widl -V
>
> Wine IDL Compiler version 4.0
> Copyright 2002 Ove Kaaven
> --

Do you have the WIDL environment variable set? Do you set it when
running configure? config.log should be helpful to diagnose your
problem.

> Is there some new function in widl 3.20 that would fail this with widl 3.0? (Due to the fact that Bionic and Cosmic only has wine-3.0.x available from default repo)

widl 3.20 or newer is required. The configure test checks the widl version.