Re: [Dev-C++] Nobody can help me with .tlb ?? :/

[Mac R. <re...@no...>]

At 05:30 PM 6/26/02 -0300, we...@ha... wrote:
>Hi Mac and Dev-C++ users,
>
>My problem is exactily it. :)
>
>I use Visual Basic 6 and i have several problems with several dll's that i
>need copy together with executable. For example the vbrun.

You don't need a C++ compiler for this.  I strongly suggest getting the
book "Hardcore Visual Basic" or "Visual Basic x.0 Programmer's Guide to the
Win32 API".  I know that the last version of "Hardcore Visual Basic"
includes instructions on how to create a TLB.

The current preferred method is to write up the description in IDL
(Interface Description Language) and compile it into a TLB with MIDL.  But
MIDL is not included in Visual Basic -- in comes with Visual C++, and I
don't know what the redistribution rights to it are...  The older method is
to write up the description in ODL (Object Description Language) and use
MkTypLib, which you *CAN* get from your Visual Basic install disk (for
vb5.0 it was in \Tools\Unsupprt\Typlib on the CD, but I don't know about
6.0).  The author of "Hardcore VB" prefers the IDL method over the ODL
method for unspecified reasons, but you may not have a choice.  I don't
have references on hand for IDL or ODL syntax, but you can probably find
some info (or at least examples) either in that directory or on the Web.  I
doubt that Dev-C++ (being based on GCC) supports creation of type
libraries, but I could easily be wrong.

Mac
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