[Bug 49775] New: sapi51.h and sapi51.idl (from which it is claimed to be generated in original Windows SDK) are missing from the sdk

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49775

Bug ID: 49775
           Summary: sapi51.h and sapi51.idl (from which it is claimed to
                    be generated in original Windows SDK) are missing from
                    the sdk
           Product: Wine
           Version: 5.16
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: sapi
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
      Distribution: ---

In the original sapi51.h it is claimed that it is generated by MIDL.
Unfortunately, sapi51.idl is missing from Windows SDK, so we cannot generate
it. This prevents building sapi5 modules with free open-source toolchains,
essentially forcing developers to use Visual Studio.

[Bug 49775] sapi51.h and sapi51.idl (from which it is claimed to be generated in original Windows SDK) are missing from the sdk

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49775

Vijay Kamuju  changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Vijay Kamuju  ---
There is no sapi51.idl or sapi53.idl on Windows SDK, the corresponding header
files are generated using sapi.idl.
May be the header files are generated by midl by passing  _SAPI_BUILD_VER
argument.

[Bug 49775] sapi51.h and sapi51.idl (from which it is claimed to be generated in original Windows SDK) are missing from the sdk

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49775

Zebediah Figura  changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Zebediah Figura  ---
I'm very confused by this bug report. Are you reporting a bug against the
Windows headers, the mingw-w64 headers, or the wine headers? Only the latter
warrants a report here, and we don't ship sapi51.h at all.

[Bug 49775] sapi51.h and sapi51.idl (from which it is claimed to be generated in original Windows SDK) are missing from the sdk

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49775

--- Comment #3 from KOLANICH  ---
> There is no sapi51.idl or sapi53.idl on Windows SDK, the corresponding header files are generated using sapi.idl. May be the header files are generated by midl by passing _SAPI_BUILD_VER argument.

Have already figured it out ;)
> Are you reporting a bug against the Windows headers, the mingw-w64 headers, or the wine headers?

I am trying to build some software without using VisualStudio. So I used
MinGW-w64. The Windows SDK is not considered a part of Visual Studio (and
compilers used with it) since it can be installed separately.

So, since there were no the needed headers in MinGW-w64, the first my attempt
was to search in Wine. Since I haven't found, my second attempt was to use the
stuff from Windows SDK (recompiling them with WIDL have removed most of the
compile errors).
> Only the latter warrants a report here, and we don't ship sapi51.h at all.

I understand.

BTW, they are not the only headers missing. `sapiddk.h` and `sapi5ddk.h` were
also needed (again, solved with compiling from IDLs in Windows SDK).

But there was 1 file missing, `sperror.h` (Wine has one, but it doesn't have
most of enums definitions found in the original one), but again the one from
Windows SDK worked well (luckily it is just a bunch of defines (why don't they
use enums for that?)).