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Robinson
Robinson

Reputation: 10122

C# class library export as COM, errors during MIDL compilation

I'm trying to create a COM library from a C# library I have. In order to do this I've defined my C# class as follows:

[Guid("830D0BFA-8045-455B-AAB7-2A7D4A16455C")]    
[ComVisible(true)]
public interface IMyInterface
{
        uint Start();
}

[Guid("22B91F20-1CC3-4276-BB51-0AE75D7DA5BB")]
[ClassInterface(ClassInterfaceType.None)]
[ComVisible(true)]
public class MyInterface_Impl : IMyInterface, IDisposable
{        
 public uint Start()
 {
 return 0;
 }
}

Additionally, I've enabled "Register for COM interop" in the project's build properties. The next step to allow a Win32 app (actually an MFC app) to use it is I think to generate a .tlb for the assembly. I'm doing this with the following post-build command:

"$(FrameworkSdkDir)\bin\NETFX 4.8 Tools\tlbexp.exe" "$(TargetFileName)" "$(TargetName).tlb" /win32

I see the .tlb in the build folder and then proceed to add it to the MFC project, right clicking it and setting it to Item Type: MIDL tool. When I then build this project, I get the following warnings and errors:

1>------ Build started: Project: My_Dll_Test_MFC, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------ 
1>Processing ..\My_Dll\bin\x86\Debug\My_Dll.tlb 1>My_Dll.tlb 
1>..\My_Dll\bin\x86\Debug\My_Dll.tlb(1): warning C4335: Mac file format detected: please convert the source file to either DOS or UNIX format 
1>..\My_Dll\bin\x86\Debug\My_Dll.tlb(1): error MIDL2025: syntax error : expecting an interface name or DispatchInterfaceName or CoclassName or ModuleName or LibraryName or ContractName or a type specification near "MSFT" 
1>..\My_Dll\bin\x86\Debug\My_Dll.tlb(1): error MIDL2026: cannot recover from earlier syntax errors; aborting compilation 1>Done building project "My_Dll_Test_MFC.vcxproj" -- FAILED.

What mistake have I made here?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 185

Answers (1)

Serg
Serg

Reputation: 4666

You should not use MIDL with a tlb (the MIDL need the idl input, not the tlb). To consume the tlb in your C++ project, you just need #import directive

Upvotes: 2

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