Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <000201bf5207$3fb776a0$0c01a8c0@Erik> From: "Ernest Poletaev" To: "Juergen Lock" Cc: References: <3866663D@webmail4.forum.dk> <19991228222114.A87431@saturn.kn-bremen.de> Subject: Re: ActiveX/OCX - programming Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 10:34:24 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2417.2000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 > > 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. > So i guess you'd have to resort to low level > ole programming which looks like, umm, not fun. Really? Ernest -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com