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Re: seperate xfree project on sourceforge
- From: "Matthew Donald" <matthew dot donald at motile dot net>
- To: "Ralf Habacker" <Ralf dot Habacker at freenet dot de>, "Cygwin-Xfree" <cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 21:42:17 +1100
- Subject: Re: seperate xfree project on sourceforge
- References: <004901c170da$6366afa0$651c440a@BRAMSCHE>
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ralf Habacker" <Ralf.Habacker@freenet.de>
To: "Cygwin-Xfree" <cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 8:13 PM
Subject: RE: seperate xfree project on sourceforge
> > Why? Well, integrating xfree into win32 cleanly is going involve COM
> > objects. AFAIK, gcc doesn't support COM (and the thought of doing COM
in
> > raw C is pretty revolting).
>
> Relates the problem to the missing msvc c++ support of g++ ?
Gcc won't compile the MFC headers. Msvc c++ has some special language
features (embrace and extend :-) required for compiling them. I think the
features modify how the VMT is generated, but I'm not sure.
cheers Matthew