[ros-dev] [Fwd: [ros-svn] CC: Eric/IDL Guys - MIDL Compatibility]

[Steven Edwards]

Hi,

On 11/29/05, Alex Ionescu <ionucu at videotron.ca> wrote:
> It seems that some of our IDL files aren't compatible by MIDL, which is
> what the msvc backend uses. The reason seems to be that in MIDL, you
> cannot use explicit_handle in an .idl file -- it must got into an ACF.
> However, WIDL doesn't parse ACF files, so this creates a lack of a
> compatible solution. Could you please add support for parsing ACF files
> in widl? The basic format seems to be really simple for our current use:

Also can someone try to extract some patches for widl and send them to
wine? Rob offered to help with this.

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