On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 5:11 AM, Jacek Caban wrote:
> On 06/12/12 10:51, Jacek Caban wrote:
>> On 06/12/12 07:06, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
>>> On 2012-06-04 04:04, Jacek Caban wrote:
>>>> Where? I don't see any. There is one change to propkeydef.h, but and I
>>>> believe incorrect. Generally, this patch makes REFIID and similar
>>>> typedefs depend on CINTERFACE, which is not present in MSVC.
>>> According to these, it is:
>>>
>>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ak5wyby1(v=vs.71).aspx

Isn't this specific to COM and an IDL compiler?

<quote>
Remarks

By default, only COM-interfaces that are base classes of the coclass
are added in the IDL coclass. implements lets you force other
interfaces to be IDL coclass members.
</quote>

>>> http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en/vcgeneral/thread/80485378-3978-472b-ac76-a6a193cb9e47
>>> http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/vclanguage/thread/9e520505-5d05-4aad-83d9-a1b73042c531
>>> http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/vclanguage/thread/9b1b2189-c518-4cd8-80cc-2656b9c0d37f

I didn't bother looking at social.msdn because it might influence me
with code I don't want to see.

>> If there is any source of informations more misleading than MSDN, that's
>> MSDN forums:) Why do you need that change? That's not what mingw.org
>> does nor MSVC, so why is it needed for your code? Can you please point
>> me to the code that doesn't compile without this change?
>
> I double checked and mingw.org apparently has this bug. Anyway, that's
> still a bug on their side that I don't think we want to duplicate.

We (mingw.org) doesn't support COM and never has.  A GCC supported IDL
compiler would be great but whose going to pick up the support on
that?

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