From: Emlyn (pentacle) (pentacle@enternet.com.au)
Date: Tue May 02 2000 - 20:37:19 MDT
> Billy Brown wrote:
> > Emlyn (pentacle) wrote:
> > > Completely off topic, my personal continuing investigation of COM (MS
> > > architecture for bits of programs to talk to each other) has led to
the
> > > interesting information that Linux now has COM, which the Kylix
project
> > > (Delphi on Linux, a Borland/Inprise project) will use to make Delphi
> work
> > on
> > > Linux, and make Delphi code portable between Windows and Linux (I
> imagine
> > > with severe restrictions).
> >
> > Cool. Is the COM support someone's add-on project, or is it actually
part
> of
> > a new Linux release?
Actually, I went and checked it out myself.
As far as I can see, DCOM comes to linux curtesy of Software AG and their
product EntireX:
http://www.softwareag.com/entirex/product/strategy.htm
Check this link in particular, for a technical explanation of the stuff
added to Linux to make DCOM (and I think plain old COM) work:
"EntireX DCOM contains an implementation of a subset of the Microsoft Win32
Application Programming Interface (API) on non-Windows platforms. This
implementation has been dubbed "Mutant". "
...
"The current release does not support the Win32 GUI-related APIs (windows,
controls, drawing primitives etc.). "
http://www.softwareag.com/entirex/download/dcomlinux/runt.htm
There is a free download of the SDK & runtime environment stuff for their
Linux implementation available right now on site:
http://www.softwareag.com/entirex/download/free_download.htm
Emlyn
Mutant - very very funny if you are the geeky type. Ha ha ha!
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