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

[Rob Shearman]

Steven Edwards wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> On 11/29/05, Alex Ionescu <ionucu(a)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