seperate xfree project on sourceforge

[Matthew Donald]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ralf Habacker" <Ralf.Habacker@freenet.de>
To: "Cygwin-Xfree" <cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 8:13 PM
Subject: RE: seperate xfree project on sourceforge


> > Why?  Well, integrating xfree into win32 cleanly is going involve COM
> > objects.  AFAIK, gcc doesn't support COM (and the thought of doing COM
in
> > raw C is pretty revolting).
>
> Relates the problem to the missing msvc c++ support of g++ ?

Gcc won't compile the MFC headers.  Msvc c++ has some special language
features (embrace and extend :-) required for compiling them.  I think the
features modify how the VMT is generated, but I'm not sure.

cheers Matthew