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

[Rob Shearman]

Steven Edwards wrote:

>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.
>  
>

Yes, I was planning to do it this week. I have messages to ros-diffs 
bookmarked, but is there a way to get the diff in plain text? I'm not 
sure how easy it will be to make patches from the HTML that is sent there.

Rob