Re: gcj to assist in porting java applet to activex control?

[Adam Megacz <gcj at lists dot megacz dot com>]

Thanks for the input, Bryce!

Bryce McKinlay <bryce@waitaki.otago.ac.nz> writes:
> You can do pretty much anything from an ActiveX control. Sun used to 
> have an ActiveX Java control,

Yep, AFAIK that's still how the Java Plugin works. I might need a
little stub in the ActiveX control that spawns the gcj process,
though.

> Assuming GCC supports COM, which I heard it does, though I've never
> used it.

Do you have any linkage for this, or a direction for me to look in?

Also, do you know where I can find info on exactly what the
relationship between ActiveX and COM is, and what makes an ordinary
DLL magically become a "COM" DLL? Microsoft's website is immensely
unhelpful...

After three years off avoiding windows, I'm once again forced to
develop for it... hopefully GCJ will let me stay blissfully in
javaland most of the time =)

> There is one serious bug you are going to run into however: The GCJ 
> compiler itself does not work  on case-insensive file systems, including 
> Cygwin. I want to fix this to get it working on Mac OS X as well, but 
> havn't yet made any real progress on the problem...

Not a problem at all; I develop on linux and crosscompile to win32.

Thanks!

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