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From: "Ernest Poletaev" <ufernest AT mail DOT ru>
To: "Juergen Lock" <nox AT jelal DOT kn-bremen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: ActiveX/OCX - programming
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 10:34:24 +0300
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> > 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


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