Thnks a lot David, I dont know how to get the build for the glib and libidl, but i tried using the prebuilt ones together with vs6, and it worked. I dont know how possible it is to get the build on VC7, maybe i will try it some other time
"David Bradley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > A J wrote: > > Hi, > > While building xpcom standalone using cygwin and VS .Net...I get the > > following crash on nsIErrorService.idl...do u know why this is so and how to > > fix it ? > > > > **************************************************************************** > > **** > > nsIErrorService.idl > > ../../dist/bin/xpidl.exe -m header -w -I ../../dist/idl -I. -o > > _xpidlgen/nsIErrorService ./nsIErrorS > > ervice.idl > > make[3]: *** [_xpidlgen/nsIErrorService.h] Error 5 > > If you are using .Net you'll need to build your own glib and libidl. You > can't use the prebuilt ones since they were compiled with VC++ 6 and not > .Net. There might be some option in .Net to compile such that you could > use the version 6 libs but I haven't used .Net so I don't know if that's > possible. > > David Bradley >
