wine users - Feb 2009 - Problems in Compiling MFC

1) i'm facing problem while compiling MFC code
when "winemaker" command is given i get these lines 

admin at XXX:~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/MFC> winemaker
--lower-uppercase .
Winemaker 0.6.0
Copyright 2000 Francois Gouget <fgouget at codeweavers.com> for
CodeWeavers
closedir() attempted on invalid dirhandle DIRECTORY at /usr/local/bin/winemaker
line 1054.
closedir() attempted on invalid dirhandle DIRECTORY at /usr/local/bin/winemaker
line 1054.
Scanning the source directories...
closedir() attempted on invalid dirhandle DIRECTORY at /usr/local/bin/winemaker
line 607.
closedir() attempted on invalid dirhandle DIRECTORY at /usr/local/bin/winemaker
line 607.
closedir() attempted on invalid dirhandle DIRECTORY at /../winemaker line 607.
closedir() attempted on invalid dirhandle DIRECTORY at /../winemaker  line 607.
closedir() attempted on invalid dirhandle DIRECTORY at /../winemaker  line 607.
Fixing the source files...
  BiCubicInterpolation_CPU_Video.cpp
  BiCubicInterpolation_OpenGL_Common.cpp
  BiCubicInterpolation_OpenGL_Video.cpp
  BindDC_OpenGL.cpp
  InputBox.cpp
  Source_Files/BiCubicInterpolation_CPU_Video.cpp
  Source_Files/BindDC_OpenGL.cpp
  Source_Files/ChildView.cpp
  Source_Files/InputBox.cpp
  Source_Files/MainFrm.cpp
  Source_Files/MyCmdLineInfo.cpp
  Source_Files/TestApp.cpp
  Resource_Files/SingleAlg_CPU_Video.rc
  BiCubicInterpolation_OpenGL.h
  BiCubicInterpolation_OpenGL_Common.h
  BindDC_Common.h
  Header_Files/ChildView.h
  Header_Files/InputBox.h
  Header_Files/MainFrm.h
  Header_Files/MyCmdLineInfo.h
  Header_Files/Resource.h
  Header_Files/TestApp.h
  Header_Files/stdafx.h
  MyCmdLineInfo.h
  Resource_Files/res/SingleAlg_CPU_Video.rc2
  Source_Files/stdafx.cpp
  readImage.h
  dicom_io.h
  SingleAlg_CPU_Video.rc
warning: In non-MFC projects, winemaker replaces the MFC specific header
'afxres.h' with 'winres.h'
warning: the above warning is issued only once
Generating project files...


2) when the "make" command is given, this is how the output looks like



admin at XXX:~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/MFC> make
wineg++ -shared dicom_io.dll.spec -mno-cygwin -o dicom_io.dll.so        -lodbc32
-lole32 -loleaut32 -lwinspool -luuid
winegcc: File does not exist: dicom_io.dll.spec
make: *** [dicom_io.dll.so] Error 2


3) Can u please let me know how to create solve problem regarding .spec and .so
files

4) Should i install wine through source archive or RPM installation is sufficent
to compile any MFC???
Please help me out  [Rolling Eyes]  [Crying or Very sad]   [Exclamation]  :x

thank u in advance

Wine doesn't contain an implementation of mfc and so can't be used for
compiling winelib apps using mfc UNLESS you would compile the microsoft mfc
sources. People did that in the past and it worked to some degree but it has
legal issues.

If you really need mfc the only way would be to run your app as a win32 app
using wine and only split some parts into dlls which you can replace with
winelib dlls. (For Wine there is no real difference if your app is a win32
executable or a winelib one. In all cases Wine is used to run it and further for
wine there is no difference between a .dll file and a winelib .dll.so)

Thanku for reply...

Please tell me, Can I compile an MFC applicaiton by installing Wine through RPM
package (simple RPM based installation of Wine, 1st kind of installation)?
[Exclamation]  [Question]

suse wrote:
> Please tell me, Can I compile an MFC applicaiton by installing Wine through
RPM package
No. Wine does not contain anything related to MFC.

If it is not related to MFC then how come in the WineLib User Guide a Particular
topic is given to Compile the MFC and even OpenGL related games are running in
Wine, which is also a MFC application?

> first you should try to compile the MFC with winelib, then compile your app
with this.
>
> a non-wine-way would be to port your app from MFC to wxWidgets.org which is
similar but runs on more platforms.
>
Or Qt (which I recommend).

John