By the same logic, you must make sure Windows is installed. This is a developers list and Ivan is saying (and I hope I interpreted this right) that the only thing blocking him from installing GTA: San Andreas out of the box is a missing stdole2.
I don't know if it's the only thing..but it's the first one, so I can't proceed further. I was interested if GTA would run with the new d3d additions.
Ivan, I believe the status was that a similar enough stdole2 cannot be generated using widl without some extensions. There are two options:
- Generate the file manually by invoking ICreateTypeLib2 functions (I
believe Microsoft do it this way). 2. Add another mode to widl that allows the necessary forward references in idl files. Huw Davies knows more about this problem.
I'm not sure how helpful I can be - just wanted to be informed, and to bring some attention to the problem - thanks for the update.