Will DCOM98 be pulled?

Mike Hearn mike at theoretic.com
Thu Jan 8 11:15:54 CST 2004


On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 16:41, Nyef wrote:
> However you slice it, though, if you use the ICreateTypeLib interfaces
> you're going to get bitten with a circular dependancy, if only because
> of the wtypes.h thing. And if you use an external library you're going
> to want to use it in oleaut32.dll as well just to avoid the code
> duplication. And that external library is going to want to duplicate
> the same parts from wtypes.h for VARENUM and such.
> 
> I hate to say it, but I think the best option might be to use an
> external winelib app to create the typelibs or to build a second copy
> of widl as a winelib app once winelib is available.

The other alternative is to have the generated files in CVS. That way we
only deal with the bootstrapping issue once. We already have quite a few
generated files in CVS because that makes our lives easier (think build
system etc) - would it be acceptable to do the same here Alexandre?




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