From: daz <dooby@...10.karoo.co.uk>
Date: 2003-05-28T14:34:24+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyCOM


"Xiangrong Fang" <xrfang@hotmail.com> wrote:

<snip>
> What I am looking for is a way to write an ActiveX DLL, or
> even normal DLL in Ruby, is that possible?
>


Interpreted languages are not suited to writing OS extensions.

Perhaps you could look around for (or write) something which
will generate DLL code for a compiled language.

Looking at examples to get through this stage should make
it easier to do the job properly with a 'fun' element ?



ftp://ftp.cs.virginia.edu/pub/lcc-win32/tutorial.zip

 has a section on writing a DLL in C.



daz