[fpc-pascal] Question: OpenOffice and FPC?

[Marc Santhoff]

Am Mittwoch, den 14.12.2005, 09:43 +0100 schrieb Tiziano - Mekar Srl -:
> hi,
> 
> Is here someone that knows if there is a way to take control of
> Opeoffice with FPC?
> 
> Time ago I made something with Delphi and OpenOffice COM Bridge, it was
> an interesting and stimulating experience, mainly because OOffice is
> available on many platforms, but this is not true for Delphi and COM. 
> 
> Now that that the 2.0 release is shining, I am going to make some other
> things, but I would like to use FPC. 
> 
> I just know that "Dispatch interface support for variants is currently
> broken in the compiler" but since I would like to do it in a portable
> way, the COM bridge is not the right way. 
> 
> any ideas?

This is difficult. I'm not aware of all the gory details, but:

- the COM-Binding is Windows only
- having a fpc binding would need a so called "bridge" for fpc and to
write it is a task for a specialist having enouch knowledge of assembler
and linking stuff, even each C++ compiler on the same os needs it's own
bridge
- there are informations on the website, try:
http://udk.openoffice.org/

HTH,
Marc