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From: "David Allsopp" <dra-news@metastack.com>
To: "OCaml List" <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: OCam'OLE using MinGW Toolchain
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 22:13:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <002801c7e36e$fad6fe50$6a7ba8c0@treble> (raw)

Just been having a rummage around on the Hump and came across OCaml'OLE - a
glance at the sample code suggests that it wraps COM interfaces quite
elegantly (not as transparently as VB6 did, but somewhere close). The snag
that I've hit is that I use the MinGW version of O'Caml built from source
and don't really want to install the MSVC port alongside... has anyone
managed to build OCaml'OLE using gcc+MinGW and if so do they have a
Makefile? :o)

The prospect of liberating a large application from VB.NET to O'Caml is very
tempting - but I've got to be able to manipulate Word and Excel via their
COM interfaces in order to have any hope!

TIA,


David

PS. I'm aware that F# would be a sensible alternative... but I'm interested
to see if O'Caml could do it too!


             reply	other threads:[~2007-08-20 21:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-20 21:13 David Allsopp [this message]
2007-08-21 18:36 ` [Caml-list] " Richard Jones

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