From: Dmitry B. <db...@ma...> - 2001-07-29 18:25:37
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Pablo Bleyer Kocik <pb...@ch...> writes: > Speaking a bit more seriously, if you want to interface to > not-to-fancy OLE/COM/COM+ stuff using mingw, things may be simple. If > you want to build your own compliant COM object from your, say, C++ > classes, things can get pretty rough. > > VC++ uses its own IDL --that's Interface Description Language-- to > build stubs (Win32 API wrappers, translators and utility functions) to > communicate with the COM framework and other objects. These stubs are not needed for inproc servers (dll-packed COM interfaces) with vmt-style interface. So in simple cases you can live without IDL compiler. Hope to hear from you soon, Dmitry |