COM

[Randall R Schulz]

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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