Adapting Quick Editor for COM
Copyright © Dec 31, 2000 by Ernest Murphy ernie@surfree.com
For educational use only. All commercial use only by written license.
revised 3/5/01 for new Tools
The Build DLL, Build OCX, and Build LIB settings described may be found at ...COMBIN
ABSTRACT
Several useful settings and bat files for the Quick Editor programming environment are discussed and offered as suggestions
INTRODUCTION
Quick Editor is a highly adaptable environment for building programming projects. Due to the menu configuration options many desirable features may be added. While some of these tricks and hints are solely applicable to COM projects, many (such as building a DLL) will see wider popularity.
The techniques to be discussed are:
· Building a Dynamic Link Library (.dll or .ocx)
· Building a Static linked library (.lib)
· Shelling Helper programs such as GUIDGEN, OleView, etc
· Registering and Unregistering COM components.
Building Dynamic Link Libraries
Dynamic link libraries are a quite useful build product, yet Quick Editor/MASM32 does not support them. This is easily remmedyied.
DLLs are produced at the LINK stage, so these following statements will produce the required filetype:
With Resources:
Link /DLL /SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS /DEF:%1.def
LIBPATH:c:masm32lib %1.obj rsrc.obj
With No resources:
Link /DLL /SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS /DEF:%1.def /OUT:%1.ocx
LIBPATH:c:masm32lib %1.obj rsrc.obj
With No resources:
OLEVIEW,Program FilesMicrosoft Visual StudioCommonToolsOLEVIEW.EXE
FindGUID,MASM32BINFINDGUID.BAT
GUID Generator,Program FilesMicrosoft Visual StudioCommonToolsGUIDGEN.EXE
Register DLL,MASM32BINregsvr32.exe {n}.DLL
Unregister DLL,MASM32BINregsvr32.exe /u {n}.DLL
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Register OCX,MASM32BINregsvr32.exe {n}.ocx
New GUID,GUIDGen.dll
Convert GUID,AsmGUID.DLL
These dlls must be moved to the same folder as Quick Editor.
Conclusion
The harder you make Quick Editor work for you, the easier your task will be. I hope I've spured you on to seek other improvements you can make.