203296 - fix accessibility on MingW builds

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 815581

(Core :: Disability Access APIs, defect)

Description

[Jonathan Wilson]

Accessibility is currently not working because the MingW w32api libraries
dont have the needed definitions. Once the definitions are in, someone will need
to fix the mozilla code. I believe Accessibility also relies on the Microsoft
Active Template Library (for which a free clone does not yet exist).

Comment 1

[timeless]

atlstl.org?

Comment 2

[Jonathan Wilson]

I checked atlstl.org and pulled down their downloads but it appears that what
they have is something that sits on top of ATL rather than being a replacement
for ATL.
So, that doesnt help.

Comment 3

[Jonathan Wilson]

This is going to need a copy of the MIDL compiler & the stuff that goes with that.
Also, a copy of ATLBASE.H, ATLCOM.H & WINABLE.H

Comment 4

[Mathew McBride]

After some google digging:

It looks like midl is in the platform sdks.

( see
http://search.microsoft.com/default.asp?qu=midl&boolean=ALL&so=RECCNT&p=1&nq=NEW&ig=03&ig=04&i=99&ig=05&i=99&ig=02&i=42&i=43&i=44&i=45&i=46&i=47&i=48&i=49&i=50&i=51&i=52&i=53&i=54&i=55&i=56&i=57&i=58&i=59&i=60&i=61&i=62&i=63&ig=07&i=99&ig=01&i=00&i=01&i=02&i=03&i=04&i=05&i=06&i=07&i=08&i=09&i=10&i=11&i=12&i=13&i=14&i=15&i=16&i=17&i=18&i=19&i=20&i=21&i=22&i=23&i=24&i=25&i=26&i=27&i=28&i=29&i=30&i=31&i=32&i=33&i=34&i=35&i=36&i=37&i=38&i=39&i=40&i=41&i=99&siteid=us/dev
)

From http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-devel/2001/11/0130.html:
" (It is possible to find copies of midl.exe floating on the net,
as some people have put together "COM kits" for Borland C++ that contains
midl.exe and some standard .idl files and put them on the web) ".

So you might find some in that space too.

Comment 5

[Steven Edwards]

WINE has a IDL compiler. Should we attempt to get this merged in to mingw so we 
can enable these componets?

Comment 6

[Eli Friedman]

Hmm, does the checkin for bug 325070 have any effect on this bug or bug 341965?

Comment 7

[Dan Mosedale (:dmosedale, :dmose)]

Assigning bugs that I'm not actively working on back to nobody; use
SearchForThis as a search term if you want to delete all related bugmail at
once.

Comment 8

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Filter on "Nobody_NScomTLD_20080620"

Comment 9

[alexander :surkov (:asurkov)]

Is this bug still valid?