Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com From: Juergen Lock Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 18:57:42 +0100 To: Ernest Poletaev Cc: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: Re: ActiveX/OCX - programming Message-ID: <19991229185742.A13559@saturn.kn-bremen.de> References: <3866663D AT webmail4 DOT forum DOT dk> <19991228222114 DOT A87431 AT saturn DOT kn-bremen DOT de> <000201bf5207$3fb776a0$0c01a8c0 AT Erik> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.7i In-Reply-To: <000201bf5207$3fb776a0$0c01a8c0@Erik> Note-from-DJ: This may be spam On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 10:34:24AM +0300, Ernest Poletaev wrote: > > > Is it possible to develop and use ActiveX controls using Mingw32? And if > yes, > > > how can it be done? > All my experiments failed. You may create simple interfaces (you'll need to > port some ole headers), but problem is type library - at this time cygwin > don't have midl compiler. Microsoft's midl compiler depend on they C > compiler, so it not working with cygwin. > Oh yes, i forgot the typelib problem! If you don't have a way to make those then you're entirely out of luck. (Well, i believe there once was some `demo version' of visual basic, maybe you could somehow use that...) Regards, -- Juergen Lock (remove dot foo from address to reply) -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com