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RE: COM


Hi

     Sorry for not being clear enough.
> COM , in this case, will be Component Object Model.
> I 'll know I have to link with ole32.dll but how do you link to
> dynamic library? 
> 
> -Manu
> 
There are things known and things Unknown.
In between are the doors - Jim Morrison

> ----------
> From: 	Randall R Schulz[SMTP:rrschulz at cris dot com]
> Sent: 	Wednesday, March 05, 2003 9:54 PM
> To: 	cygwin at cygwin dot com
> Subject: 	Re: COM
> 
> Robert,
> 
> At 08:13 2003-03-05, Robert Praetorius wrote:
> > > Hi Gang
> > > How do I link my COM pgms?
> >
> >      For half a second I was ready to fling
> >
> >         http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html.
> 
> Fling away!
> 
> Is it COM, Component Object Model (with it's cousin DCOM, Distributed 
> COM) or is it COM as in COM1:, COM2:, etc.?
> 
> 
> >at you - then I realized that grepping the web (or even the cygwin.com
> >corner of it) for COM is a nontrivial proposition.
> >
> >      I don't know from COM, but this message
> >
> >         http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2000-05/msg00257.html
> >
> >indicates that, even in antiquity, a program (Perl, in this case)
> compiled
> >under Cygwin with gcc was able to use COM.  The bread crumbs led me here:
> >
> >         http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC95
> >
> >where I see ole32 in the list (as I said, I don't know from COM, but a
> >brief surf and a test compile led me to believe that ole32.dll contains
> at
> >least some of the COM-related functions you need.  I bet you can find any
> >others that COM requires.).
> 
> This assumes that the OP was asking about Component Object Model, but I 
> don't see how that can be assumed, given how little he said.
> 
> Randall Schulz 
> 
> 
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