Subcommands gain one/two-letter aliases (dl, i, e, v, h) alongside
their full names. CLI-owned chrome - top-level usage, per-subcommand
usage lines, progress messages, and the license prompt - now goes
through internal/i18n, an env-driven message catalog (MSVC_GO_WINE_LANG,
falling back to the standard LC_ALL/LC_MESSAGES/LANG locale variables)
with English and Russian translations. Deeper error text from internal
packages stays in English.
Also refreshed the top-level usage text, which hadn't kept up with
--with-wdk/--list-workloads/--list-components/--print-deps-tree.
--dest (download) and the positional dir (install) were previously
required, forcing every user to pick and remember a location. Both now
default to a single hidden ~/.msvc-go-wine, matching the convention most
CLI tools use for their own data dir - still overridable for anyone who
wants a different location.
A single-binary Go tool for cross compiling with the real MSVC toolchain
on Linux via Wine. Behaves as cl/link/lib/rc/midl/mt/dumpbin/msbuild/
nmake/ml/ml64/armasm/armasm64/cmd/findstr depending on the name it's
invoked as, plus download/install/env/version management subcommands.
- download: fetches the MSVC/WinSDK installer manifest, resolves package
selection and dependencies, downloads and verifies payloads, unpacks
VSIX/MSI packages, and applies a handful of compatibility patches so
VsDevCmd.bat and MSBuild's SDK detection work without a Windows
Registry (which doesn't exist under Wine).
- install: locates the installed toolchain/SDK versions, normalizes
header/library name casing, lays out per-architecture tool symlinks
with an env.json config each, and compiles a small native launcher
(toolrelay.exe) that lets mt.exe's CMake-compatibility exit code
survive Wine's own exit-code truncation.
- The wrapper runtime rewrites absolute unix paths in tool arguments into
Wine's z:\... form, runs the real .exe under wine, and rewrites the
tool's output back to plain unix paths.
Verified end-to-end against a real MSVC/WinSDK download: cl, link, mt and
the resulting hello.exe all work under Wine, including through the
toolrelay.exe relay path and with paths containing non-ASCII characters.
Offline unit tests cover the wrapper's path-rewrite/output-filter logic,
install-time header lowercasing, and download package-selection/
dependency-resolution.
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