Re: [Mingw-users] about COM

[Lloyd D. <ll...@ga...>]

Chris Marshall wrote:
> 
> Lloyd -
> 
> I'm going to stick my two cents in,
... i must admit that, though my name, i am french, and i understand the
above line is just an expression not related to mingw, anyway, what does
it mean ?


> Assuming that you are correct that SafeArrayCreateEx() is a part
> of the oleaut32.dll, then it seems to me that you need to have an
> oleaut32.lib and an oleaut32.h somewhere ... 
> perhaps obtained from the Microsoft SDK?
in fact oleaut32.dll is a standart DLL found in
C:\WINNT\System32\oleaut32.dll
(not specifically shipped with a dev env)

it seems that SafeArrayCreateEx is new, as i have bought, in the
beginning of 98, Visual C++ 5, which is shipped with OLEAUTO.H which has
a definition for 'SafeArrayCreate' but not for 'SafeArrayCreateEx'


> Otherwise, you might have to build a libary from the .DLL by
> creating a .DEF
> file and then using dlltool (what I went through a couple of weeks
> ago). I  don't see how that procedure solves the problem of the
> missing .h file, however.
yeah, ...
the problem is that i allready try to download microsoft SDK just a few
week ago, but this download a 64 bit version of visual studio, CL
compiler and header.
it don't work on my machine and it is not shiped with ole*.h headers.
(maybe i missed something ?)