From: moskewcz@Princeton.EDU (Matthew Moskewicz) Subject: Re: OLE 15 Jan 1997 20:26:42 -0800 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <32DD983C.3657.cygnus.gnu-win32@Princeton.edu> References: <199701152008.NAA24659@aitsun95.tci.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I) Original-To: Ed Peschko Original-CC: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Ed Peschko wrote: > > hey -- > > Is there any way to get OLE support for unix code compiled with cygwin.dll? > Or are the two types of applications fundamentally incompatible (console vs. > other) > > Ed > - There's nothing stopping you from calling the OLE initialzation functions, but back with b16 I had tried to get COM (subset of OLE? OleInitialize() calls COInitialize(), anyway) to work with little luck. I suppose the real problems are the lack of RPC / COM / DCOM headers, and the lack of a MIDL-compatible compiler. As a warning, this info is more of an educated guess than real knowledge. - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".