Re: a stab at removing atl stuff. window experience needed.

On Fri, 2012-04-27 at 14:40 +0200, Regina Henschel wrote:
> Hi Caolán,
>
> Caolán McNamara schrieb:
> > In an effort to make building under windows a pain-free as possible.
> > I'm playing with removing the atl usage in embedserv seeing as
> > MSVC2008 Express doesn't come with it.
>
> But there is a way to get the needed libraries.
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/BuildingOnWindowsWithCygwinAndMSVCExpress#Getting_ATL_work_with_Visual_Studio_Express

Yeah, buts its not sufficiently trivial to be easy enough
IMO :-( Downloading half a gig of DirectX for a few header files and a
lib is bad enough, but at least its "just click through" rather than
have to fiddle with a .iso and edit things.

> I don't know about the code. But I thought atl is needed for OLE 
> embedding. You should be able to use MathType for example.  You can test 
> it with a new OLE object of type PaintBrush. (Insert > Object > OLE 
> object > From file seems to be broken in the moment.)

Yeah, I suppose I need to test inserting office stuff into other things
and other things into office and see if definitely breaking embeddserv
breaks those and if converting it over gives something working.

C.