windows.h: No such file or directory?

[Tester]

Wine --version: 1.7.34
OS: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
winecfg executes with no errors or warnings

Previously I had wine 1.6.2 on the system, doing an upgrade to the latest beta build to test if a problem still persisted in the beta build. I've ran winemaker -> make -> run program with no issues on 1.6.2.

I have attempted to install wine both from using the terminal and using the ubuntu software manager.

http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu trusty main
and http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu trusty main (Source Code) are both listed under Ubuntu Software Centre -> software sources -> Other Software. The main is checked while the Source Code is not.

Microsoft Windows Compatibility Layer (Binary Emulator and Library) wine1.7 shows as installed with all optional add-ons when linked from apt://wine1.7

Wine installs with no errors, no i386 prompts, no gnome-keyring-pkcs11 prompts or any of the other common issues I've seen.

.wine folder exists, default 64 bit.

When running the exact same order of commands in a folder that used to work with Wine 1.6.2, this error occurs:

fatal error: windows.h: No such file or directory
#include <windows.h>
^
compilatoin terminated.
winegcc: gcc failed

I'm very confused as to what could be causing this problem as this computer ran 1.6.2 fine. I've tried purging, removing the root folder .wine, removing the ppa repository, reinstalling, to no avail.

[olivierfrdierick]

Please, tell us what you're trying to achieve, so that we can tell you if there are any other way to do it than using Winelib.

Link: WineHQ Forums - View topic - Winelib and windows.h

[Tester]

Please, tell us what you're trying to achieve, so that we can tell you if there are any other way to do it than using Winelib.

Link: WineHQ Forums - View topic - Winelib and windows.h

Solved my own problem building the packages from source using

apt-get --build source wine1.7
sudo dpkg -i wine*.deb

you can close this thread.

Thank you.