Am 17.09.2011 15:01, schrieb Fridrich Strba: > Hello, Mathias, > > On 17/09/11 00:01, Mathias Bauer wrote: >> As you might know, building with VS Express requires disabling usage of >> ATL headers as they are missing in the Express version. >> When I was working on another project that forced me to build Chromium, >> I found in their build instructions that the MS Windows Driver >> Development Kit contains the necessary atl headers and libs. The WDK can >> be downloaded freely, so I assume that it's OK to use them build with VS >> Express *and* atl (if it works as it sounds). > > Thanks for the hint. It is really something to try and modify oowintool > to look for DDK's headers too if it finds the VS2008 Express is used. > > I once wondered what we actually use the ATL for, but never had the > motivation to look. Normally Windows developers use ATL to make their > COM+ programming easier. If this is the case for LO, I would even > contend that trying to rewrite those pieces in a plain C++ could be good > idea, because it would allow us to build them with MinGW too. > > I did some COM+ programming in evolution in C++ first and then I rewrote > that part in plain C, so I believe that it is something doable. > Although, I have to look what we really use the ATL for.
AFAIR it was used in some of the OLE implementations (embeddedobj or embedserv) and for the ActiveX-Control (extensions/source/soactivex). I agree that at least for the first part reimplementing would be a good idea, and in fact I once had planned to do that. Admittedly it was never important enough. Regards, Mathias _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
