Is there an opensource MIDL?

[Kuba Ober]

Hi,

I'm putting up a cross-compilation environment for Qt/Win 
(Professional/Enterprise) so that it could be built (and the applications 
using it!) with crossmingw32 (http://www.ibib.waw.pl/~winnie).

In order to enable myself (and other people) to "natively" use ActiveX (and 
thus ActiveQT), I guess I need to find an IDL compiler, right? I think that 
Qt needs it for ActiveQT...

Do you folks, by any chance, know of an opensource midl compiler that I could 
use in my packages? Or is there something at least semi-functional in the 
works somewhere?

My web searches didn't turn up with anything...

Thanks,
Kuba Ober
PS. Please CC replies to me as I'm not on wine-devel

[Mike Hearn]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 18:43:44 -0500, Kuba Ober wrote:
> Do you folks, by any chance, know of an opensource midl compiler that I could 
> use in my packages? Or is there something at least semi-functional in the 
> works somewhere?

The only one I know is our own - widl. It's a UNIX app however. You'd need
to build it with cygwin or something to work on Windows.

thanks -mike

[Steven Edwards]

--- Mike Hearn  wrote:
> The only one I know is our own - widl. It's a UNIX app however. You'd
> need
> to build it with cygwin or something to work on Windows.

You dont need cygwin. You can use MSYS and Mingw to get a widl built so
you wont be dependant on the cygwin runtime.

One of these days I will get around to making my Linux box due scripted
builds of the Mingw port.

Thanks
Steven

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[Mike McCormack]

There's widl in Wine, and apparently Samba also has their own 
implementation.

Wine's implementation generates headers, and some work has been made on 
generating typelibs.  Samba's can apparently generate proxy stubs.

It would be nice to merge those two into a single implementation, 
possibly under the GPL.  The output of the IDL compiler should be 
licensed under the least restrictive possible license though...

Mike

Kuba Ober wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm putting up a cross-compilation environment for Qt/Win 
> (Professional/Enterprise) so that it could be built (and the applications 
> using it!) with crossmingw32 (http://www.ibib.waw.pl/~winnie).
>
> In order to enable myself (and other people) to "natively" use ActiveX (and 
> thus ActiveQT), I guess I need to find an IDL compiler, right? I think that 
> Qt needs it for ActiveQT...
>
> Do you folks, by any chance, know of an opensource midl compiler that I could 
> use in my packages? Or is there something at least semi-functional in the 
> works somewhere?
>
> My web searches didn't turn up with anything...
>
> Thanks,
> Kuba Ober
> PS. Please CC replies to me as I'm not on wine-devel

[Dimitrie O. Paun]

On February 12, 2004 06:43 pm, Kuba Ober wrote:
> I'm putting up a cross-compilation environment for Qt/Win
> (Professional/Enterprise) so that it could be built (and the applications
> using it!) with crossmingw32 (http://www.ibib.waw.pl/~winnie).

Once you get that running, it would be cool to try to compile
Qt/Win using Wine under Linux! We already have a task for it
on the Fun Projects Page (http://www.winehq.org/site/fun_projects),
please let us know of your progress on this.