MinGW-Port: Problems with UnoUrlResolver

[Stephan Bergmann]

On 02/22/2012 11:30 AM, Michael Meeks wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-02-21 at 17:51 +0100, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
>> The problem here appears not be C-based sal but C++-based cppuhelper
>> ("using ::cppu::bootstrap()"), which will only work if cppuhelper and
>> client code are compiled with the same compiler (either both MSVC or
>> both GCC).
>
> 	I wonder - is it possible to expose a C / salcall set of methods for
> the basic bootstrapping, as is done in sal ?
>
> 	Helmar - I guess, if you're ambitious ;-) you could create such a
> wrapper API that does the basic UNO setup / bootstrapping you want,
> provide a C API for it, compile that with MSVC++ and then use it. If
> that worked well, perhaps we could include it into LibreOffice.
>
> 	How does that sound ? How much API do you really need before we get to
> raw sal / UNO-ness ?

I doubt that Helmar's application only uses C-based sal API after 
initial setup (how would it communicate with LO then? hand-crafted 
binary UNO calls? and in case it does not communicate with LO via UNO at 
all after setup, why set up the UNO connection in the first place)?  In 
which case that wrapper would buy you nothing.

Stephan