NAME

       winegcc - Wine C and C++ MinGW Compatible Compiler

SYNOPSIS

       winegcc [options] infile...

DESCRIPTION

       winegcc  is  a gcc wrapper which tries to provide a MinGW compatible compiler under Linux.
       This is most useful to Win32 developers who can simply take their MinGW code from Windows,
       and recompile it without modifications under Winelib on Linux.  wineg++ accepts mostly the
       same options as winegcc.

       The  goal  of  winegcc  is  to  be   able   to   simply   replace   gcc/g++/windres   with
       winegcc/wineg++/wrc  in a MinGW Makefile, and just recompile the application using Winelib
       under Wine. While typically  there  are  small  adjustments  that  must  be  made  to  the
       application  source code and/or Makefile, it is quite easy to do them in a fashion that is
       compatible between the MinGW and Wine environments.

       This manual will document only the differences from gcc; please consult the gcc manual for
       more information on those options.

OPTIONS

       gcc options: All gcc options are supported, and are passed along to the backend compiler.

       -Bprefix
              This  option specifies where to find the executables, libraries, include files, and
              data files of the compiler itself. This is a standard  gcc  option  that  has  been
              extended  to  recognize  a  prefix  ending  with  '/tools/winebuild', in which case
              winegcc enters a special mode for building Wine  itself.  Developers  should  avoid
              prefixes  ending  with the magic suffix, or if that is not possible, simply express
              it differently, such as '/tools/winebuild/', to avoid the special behaviour.

       -fno-short-wchar
              Override the underlying type for wchar_t to be the default for the target,  instead
              of using short unsigned int, which is the default for Win32.

       -mconsole
              This   option   passes   '--subsystem  console'  to  winebuild,  to  build  console
              applications. It is the default.

       -mno-cygwin
              Use Wine implementation of MSVCRT, instead of linking against the host system libc.
              This  is  necessary  for the vast majority of Win32 applications, as they typically
              depend on various features of MSVCRT.  This  switch  is  also  used  by  the  MinGW
              compiler to link against MSVCRT on Windows, instead of linking against Cygwin libc.
              Sharing the syntax with MinGW makes it very easy to write Makefiles that work under
              Wine, MinGW+MSYS, or MinGW+Cygwin.

       -municode
              Set the default entry point of the application to be the Unicode wmain() instead of
              the standard main().

       -mwindows
              This option adds  -lgdi32,  -lcomdlg32,  and  -lshell32  to  the  list  of  default
              libraries,  and  passes  '--subsystem  windows'  to  winebuild  to  build graphical
              applications.

       -nodefaultlibs
              Do not use the standard system libraries when linking. These include at  a  minimum
              -lkernel32,  -luser32,  -ladvapi32,  and  any default libraries used by the backend
              compiler. The -mwindows option augments the list of default libraries as  described
              above.

       -nostartfiles
              Do not add the winecrt0 library when linking.

       -Wb,option
              Pass  an option to winebuild.  If option contains commas, it is split into multiple
              options at the commas.

DEFINES

       winegcc defines __WINE__, for code that needs to know when  it  is  being  compiled  under
       Wine.  It  also  defines  WIN32,  _WIN32,  __WIN32,  __WIN32__, __WINNT, and __WINNT__ for
       compatibility with MinGW.

BUGS

       The dllimport/dllexport attributes are not supported at the moment, due to lack of support
       for these features in the ELF version of gcc.

       Static  linking  is  not  currently supported against Wine DLLs. As a result, the -static,
       --static, and -Wl,-static options will generate an error.

       Bugs can be reported on the Wine bug tracker ⟨http://bugs.winehq.org⟩.

AUTHORS

       winegcc was written by Dimitrie O. Paun.

AVAILABILITY

       winegcc is part of the Wine distribution, which is  available  through  WineHQ,  the  Wine
       development headquarters ⟨http://www.winehq.org/⟩.

SEE ALSO

       gcc(1), winebuild(1), wrc(1), wine(1),
       Wine documentation and support ⟨http://www.winehq.org/help⟩.