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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# Type-check and lint punktfunk's WINDOWS-only Rust from a Linux dev box.
+#
+#   scripts/wincheck.sh                # clippy -D warnings, the default
+#   scripts/wincheck.sh check          # cargo check instead
+#   scripts/wincheck.sh clippy --fix   # extra args are passed through to cargo
+#
+# Linux CI never compiles `#[cfg(target_os = "windows")]` code, so a Windows-side edit is otherwise
+# unverifiable until the Windows CI job runs (minutes) or someone tests on a real box. This gets the
+# same answer in ~1 s warm, against the WORKING TREE — the generated workspace symlinks each `src`
+# at the real crate directory, so there is nothing to keep in sync and no copies to go stale.
+#
+# WHY A SEPARATE WORKSPACE — the obvious in-tree command
+#
+#     cargo check --target x86_64-pc-windows-msvc -p pf-capture
+#
+# fails, and NOT because of the Windows code: it dies in build scripts that compile C for the
+# target. `audiopus_sys` first (cmake wants a Visual Studio generator), then `ring` (needs an MSVC C
+# compiler plus the Windows SDK headers; clang-cl and lld-link exist locally but there is no SDK).
+# Both enter the graph through `punktfunk-core`'s `quic` feature. Stubbing opus with a fake
+# `opus.pc` gets past audiopus but not ring.
+#
+# The whole Windows capture stack uses exactly TWO items from punktfunk-core — `quic::HdrMeta` and
+# `Mode`, both plain data (re-verify with:
+# `grep -rho 'punktfunk_core::[A-Za-z_:]*' crates/pf-capture/src crates/pf-frame/src crates/pf-win-display/src | sort -u`).
+# So this script generates a ~30-line stub core carrying just those, and rustls/ring/opus never
+# enter the graph at all. Every path dep that is NOT a generated member points at the REAL crate by
+# absolute path, so their own relative deps and `version.workspace` inheritance still resolve.
+#
+# Note: `cargo fmt` needs none of this — rustfmt follows `mod`/`#[path]` without evaluating cfg, so
+# it already reaches Windows-only files. Mechanical edits can be normalised with plain `cargo fmt`.
+set -euo pipefail
+
+REPO="$(cd "$(dirname "$(readlink -f "$0")")/.." && pwd)"
+OUT="${WINCHECK_DIR:-$REPO/target/wincheck}"
+TARGET=x86_64-pc-windows-msvc
+
+# The generated members: crates whose Windows code we lint, plus the stub core they share. A path
+# dep naming one of these must stay RELATIVE (resolving to the generated member); anything else is
+# rewritten to the real crate. Getting that backwards silently drags the real punktfunk-core — and
+# with it ring and opus — back in through pf-frame, which is the entire thing this avoids.
+MEMBERS_RE='punktfunk-core|pf-frame|pf-win-display|pf-capture'
+REAL_MEMBERS=(pf-frame pf-win-display pf-capture)
+
+cmd="${1:-clippy}"
+[ $# -gt 0 ] && shift
+case "$cmd" in
+  check | clippy) ;;
+  *)
+    echo "usage: $(basename "$0") [check|clippy] [extra cargo args...]" >&2
+    exit 2
+    ;;
+esac
+
+if ! rustc --print target-list | grep -qx "$TARGET"; then
+  echo "wincheck: rustc does not know $TARGET" >&2
+  exit 1
+fi
+if ! rustup target list --installed 2>/dev/null | grep -qx "$TARGET"; then
+  echo "wincheck: target $TARGET not installed for the active toolchain — run:" >&2
+  echo "    rustup target add $TARGET" >&2
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+rm -rf "$OUT"
+mkdir -p "$OUT"
+
+# Mirror the real [workspace.package] so the members' `version.workspace = true` resolves.
+{
+  echo '# GENERATED by scripts/wincheck.sh — do not edit; re-run the script.'
+  echo '[workspace]'
+  echo 'resolver = "2"'
+  echo 'members = ["punktfunk-core", "pf-frame", "pf-win-display", "pf-capture"]'
+  echo
+  echo '[workspace.package]'
+  sed -n '/^\[workspace\.package\]/,/^$/p' "$REPO/Cargo.toml" | sed '1d;/^$/d'
+} > "$OUT/Cargo.toml"
+
+mkdir -p "$OUT/punktfunk-core/src"
+cat > "$OUT/punktfunk-core/Cargo.toml" <<'EOF'
+# GENERATED by scripts/wincheck.sh — a STUB, not the real crate.
+[package]
+name = "punktfunk-core"
+version.workspace = true
+edition = "2021"
+rust-version.workspace = true
+
+[features]
+default = []
+# Present so dependents' `features = ["quic"]` resolves; carries no quinn/rustls/opus.
+quic = []
+EOF
+
+# Field layout and derives must match the real definitions, or the cross-check goes stale exactly
+# where it matters (the capture code builds HdrMeta literally and compares Modes).
+cat > "$OUT/punktfunk-core/src/lib.rs" <<'EOF'
+//! GENERATED by scripts/wincheck.sh — a STUB of punktfunk-core carrying only the two items the
+//! Windows capture stack uses. Mirrors crates/punktfunk-core: `Mode` from config.rs, `HdrMeta`
+//! from quic/datagram.rs. If either grows a field, mirror it here.
+
+/// Mirrors `punktfunk_core::Mode`.
+#[repr(C)]
+#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
+pub struct Mode {
+    pub width: u32,
+    pub height: u32,
+    pub refresh_hz: u32,
+}
+
+pub mod quic {
+    /// Mirrors `punktfunk_core::quic::HdrMeta`.
+    #[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq, Eq, Default)]
+    pub struct HdrMeta {
+        pub display_primaries: [[u16; 2]; 3],
+        pub white_point: [u16; 2],
+        pub max_display_mastering_luminance: u32,
+        pub min_display_mastering_luminance: u32,
+        pub max_cll: u16,
+        pub max_fall: u16,
+    }
+}
+EOF
+
+for name in "${REAL_MEMBERS[@]}"; do
+  mkdir -p "$OUT/$name"
+  # Park the member paths behind a sentinel first: a plain self-substitution would be a no-op and
+  # the next rule would rewrite them to absolute along with everything else.
+  {
+    echo "# GENERATED by scripts/wincheck.sh from crates/$name/Cargo.toml — src/ is a symlink."
+    sed -E "s#path = \"\.\./($MEMBERS_RE)\"#path = \"@@M@@\1\"#g; \
+            s#path = \"\.\./([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)\"#path = \"$REPO/crates/\1\"#g; \
+            s#path = \"@@M@@#path = \"../#g" "$REPO/crates/$name/Cargo.toml"
+  } > "$OUT/$name/Cargo.toml"
+  ln -sfn "$REPO/crates/$name/src" "$OUT/$name/src"
+done
+
+cd "$OUT"
+for name in "${REAL_MEMBERS[@]}"; do
+  echo "=== $cmd $name ($TARGET) ==="
+  if [ "$cmd" = clippy ]; then
+    cargo clippy --target "$TARGET" -p "$name" --all-targets "$@" -- -D warnings
+  else
+    cargo check --target "$TARGET" -p "$name" --all-targets "$@"
+  fi
+done