[pkg-wine-party] Bug#824671: missing widl

Andrey Gursky andrey.gursky at e-mail.ua
Wed May 18 16:49:44 UTC 2016


Hi Jens,

On Wed, 18 May 2016 18:19:17 +0200
Jens Reyer <jens.reyer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Andrey
> 
> On 05/18/2016 05:34 PM, Andrey Gursky wrote:
> > I noticed that wine{32,64}-development-tools packages do not contain
> > the widl tool anymore [1]. It is still there in Jessie [2] and in
> > wine-staging.
> 
> Thanks, you're right. I'm not familiar with widl. I take it this should
> be available in /usr/bin, or is it only called indirectly (then I'd only
> add it in /usr/lib/wine-development/).

The tool is called directly to compile IDL files into TLB.
I believe the placement and symbolic links of wmc and wrc would be
appropriate also for widl.

Regards,
Andrey



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