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RE: VB
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Subject: RE: VB
- From: David Korn <dkorn at pixelpower dot com>
- Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 15:05:39 -0000
>system stuff. I have assumed in my reply above that there is VB
>specific stuff that would be needed that
>
>a) comes only with VB
>b) is copyrighted by Microsoft, and contains protectable expression
>c) there is no way of providing substitute components
>
>But if there are no components for which all of a) b) and c) are true
>then the situation is more hopeful.
Not sure if it's relevant or not, but the Visual Basic runtime support
is supplied by a .dll which is freely-redistributable. IIUC, that's all
that would need to be provided as a 'target library'.
DaveK
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