Re: MIDL and COM

[Peter Samuelson]

I know this thread is a couple weeks old, I saw it on Wine Weekly
News...

[A. Julliard]
> > If we want to use .idl files we'll have to come up with our own
> > compiler, and then we can put the .idl source in the tree and
> > compile it at build time.

[Ove Kaaven]
> Hmm. Even when using flex and bison, it sounds like a fair amount of
> work... wonder who would volunteer?

The FreeDCE Project has a DCE IDL compiler which I understand is mostly
compatible with MIDL.EXE.  See http://sf.net/projects/freedce and
http://www.dcerpc.net/ (the latter seems to be malfunctioning at the
moment).

Peter