Libs for winegcc

SilverBird775

Hello,

As the topic said, i am unable to find the wine libs (-lole32, -ladvapi32, etc...) for linking with winegcc. Can someone please point out the right package for them? They was deleted by some update about 2 years ago and I cannot find them since then. wine-devel seems to only have includes.

Staudey

SilverBird775 Hmm, I dunno, wine-32bit? They're only there in .dll form though. I'm not sure how the winegcc setup is supposed to look like

SilverBird775

Staudey Nope, that one is only for binaries as well (".dll"). winegcc expects wraps around dll's, ".o" or maybe ".so"? The most expected corresponding imports for in-wine linking are usually ".a" files.

winegcc even have an option for the case:

-Wl,--out-implib,lib.a
    When linking a dll, also create its corresponding import library.

I'm sure wine-devel somehow dropped them at some point by mistake.

Staudey

SilverBird775 Nope, that one is only for binaries as well (".dll"). winegcc expects wraps around dll's, ".o" or maybe ".so"? The most expected corresponding imports for in-wine linking are usually ".a" files.

The release notes linked in the above change mention this

Most modules are built in PE format (Portable Executable, the
Windows binary format) instead of ELF when the MinGW compiler is
available. This helps various copy protection schemes that check
that the on-disk and in-memory contents of system modules are
identical.

The actual PE binaries are copied into the Wine prefix instead of
the fake DLL files. This makes the prefix look more like a real
Windows installation, at the cost of some extra disk space.
[...]
The Wine C runtime is updated to support linking to MinGW-compiled
binaries; it is used by default instead of the MinGW runtime when
building DLLs.

Not sure exactly what this means for your use case

SilverBird775

Looks like this one to blame:
https://github.com/getsolus/packages/commit/8e2a3c46bc7686edfd92aff398e4ee41e4253af8

SilverBird775

Staudey Well, my use case is winegcc and the above change is kind of backfired because winegcc left with nothing to link with, not even the mandatory common libs.
Because winegcc is not MinGW, it compiles and works with wine's ELF, not windows PE.

SilverBird775

To better understand the problem you may try to compile hello.cpp:

#include <iostream>
int main()
{
	std::cout << "Hello, World!" << std::endl;
	return 0;
}

with $ winegcc hello.cpp

Staudey

Yeah, I can reproduce the issue. Probably best to open a bug report on the issue tracker, so this doesn't get lost.