Standardized and automatic generation of Windows SDK headers

rikki cattermole rikki at cattermole.co.nz
Sat Feb 22 09:53:08 UTC 2020


On 22/02/2020 10:39 PM, rikki cattermole wrote:
> We don't need Microsoft's help for this.
> 
> The frontend should be augmented to support IDL based creation of the AST.
> 
> Everything that we need is in WinAPI.
> 
> It is not an LDC specific issue.

Just to clarrify:

You would compile the IDL files to typelib via the MIDL compiler, these 
are what you distribute.

You will then load the typelib file via i.e. LoadTypeLib or 
LoadRegTypeLib which uses the registry to look it up.


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