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From: David Botton <David@Botton.com>
Subject: Re: Win32: Using COM from Gnat
Date: 1999/02/10
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I also now have an example of creating a COM object with Ada completed,
but am having problems with GNATs ability to create working DLLs (or my
ability to convince it to do so). The Dlls work on NT, but not on my
Win98 machine. Any one have any ideas?

David Botton


David Botton wrote:
> 
> I am sure he is referring to my example on The Ada Source Code Treasury -
> http://www.botton.com/ada
> 
> The COM example there (and the one I am working on now to create
> COM objects) are intended to show the underlying interface of Ada to COM. I
> should certainly hope that some one who will be doing a lot of
> COM programming will package things in a more Ada manner as your bindings
> do.
> 
> David Botton
> 
> John Walker wrote:
> 
> > >I saw a pointer to something on this subject in this newsgroup
> > >recently, but it looked a bit like the second example (pages of code
> > >to create and access an instance of a trivial "beep the speaker"
> > >object). Frankly, too much of Win32's internals are now COM-based for
> > >verbose, unreadable code to be usable...
> 
> > I hope this doesn't turn out to be the "beep the speaker" example you
> > refer to!