Igor Stasenko wrote
> AFAIK, COM is fairly simple. You need to do a lill parsing deciphering
> IDL interface,
> and frankly i don't remember all the details. But at the end, it is
> just a bunch of C calls.
> With NativeBoost you can do calls to C .. so it is doable.
> 
> Again, Dolphin Smalltalk can use COM , so if it can be done there, i
> don't see why it is impossible
> to do the same in Pharo.

well, Dolphin COM interface was written by two very bright chaps with
intimate knowledge of their VM and system, good knowledge of windows and
COM, over a rather long period. 

So I would say:

- Doable: absolutely yes, 

- Feasible for someone who does not have solid experience in FFI and just
needs to connect to this library so that he can do his real job: probably
no.





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