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"Mattias Waldau" <mattias.waldau@abc.se> writes:

> I have a big caml-program that I would like to call from VB/VBA.

Then COM is obviously your choice. How else will you interface VB with
your Ocaml library?

> I prefer DLL to COM,

I cannot understand this. DLL and COM are not concepts of the same
level. That's like to say "I prefer fruits to oranges" :-)

> since I do not need to register.

I have already explaned you that in fact you can use COM DLL without
registering, at least from C/C++ (don't know about VB since I never used
it).

> Also, VBA
> cannot call normal COM-objects, they need the idispatch-interface.

Not a problem. Camlidl lets you to equip Ocaml COM component with IDispatch
interface.

Dmitry Bely


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