COM/OLE advanced questions

[Guillaume Piolat]

On Friday, 3 November 2017 at 02:30:59 UTC, evilrat wrote:
> You can't(or maybe you can but that is not a true COM). COM is 
> Windows tech. It is backed up by OLE or whatever server it is.

What happens is that I translate a SDK which provides "COM-like" 
objects, on Windows and Mac (claiming ABI compatibility) and I'd 
like to know if I'll be able to use the COM facilities in D. No 
class will need registering.


> My guess it will work fine when derive from any extern(Windows) 
> interface(that's right, not class) that has base 3 
> methods(AddRef, Release, QueryInterface)

I'll test that scenario and see if the layout is the same.