RE: COM Servers

2002-10-26 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
ent an ActiveX scripting engine for Ruby. I'd >prefer to do it in Cygwin gcc since not everybody had the MS compiler. There >other other capabilities that are implied: Compiling IDL files, linking to >COM libraries, and ATL support. Something tells me that most folks who want >to impl

RE: COM Servers

2002-10-26 Thread Bob Calco
TL support. Something tells me that most folks who want to implement COM servers just bite the bullet and use the MS compiler, though. Then I'd have to compile Ruby itself in VCPP, and a MS-compiled version of Ruby would be mandatory to use my extension. I was hoping to avoid that. - Bob %

Re: COM Servers

2002-10-26 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 11:38 AM 10/25/2002, Bob Calco wrote: >Anyone: > >I've looked for information about building COM servers with Cygwin but a.) >the archive search tool crapped out on me when I attempted a search, and b.) >question doesn't appear on the FAQ list. Feel free to u

COM Servers

2002-10-25 Thread Bob Calco
Anyone: I've looked for information about building COM servers with Cygwin but a.) the archive search tool crapped out on me when I attempted a search, and b.) question doesn't appear on the FAQ list. So: Is it possible to build COM Servers using Cygwin? If so, are there any tu