Re[2]: [AD] Allegro and Visual Basic

[Guillaume Serre <arrakyd@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Bob,

Wednesday, June 06, 2001, 5:50:21 PM, you wrote:


B> Jason Wilkins wrote:

B>  > My main problem is that I don't think there is a way to automatically
B>  > generate a wrapper.  There would be a way if there was a list of
B>  > functions and constants...


B> If you run fixdll for any Windows port, it will create a file called
B> alleg.def. This file will contain the list of all exported symbols in
B> the DLL.

I was looking into a proper way to get VB support in Allegro, and I
was wondering if anyone here has experience with type-librairies
(.TLB files). There is a little utility called mktyplib.exe which can
create a .TLB file from a .ODL file which looks a bit like a modified
.H file.

I hope everyone can understand my English ...

I was just wondering if it was possible to create a type library from
Allegro, and if it was worth it. If it's the case, we should try to
automate the allegro.h -> allegro.odl conversion within the build
process, and use mktyplib.exe which is part of any Visual C++
distribution (that's the case with V6).

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Best regards,
 Guillaume                            mailto:arrakyd@xxxxxxxxxx