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replacement for MiKTeX SDK #308

Closed mgieseki closed 4 years ago

mgieseki commented 5 years ago

As the SDK has been deprecated, will there be some kind of replacement to access the file lookup functionality or is it gone for good?

edocevoli commented 5 years ago

The SDK was not really platform-independent and so I have removed it from CTAN. But the COM objects and interfaces for Windows are still valid and I plan to keep them as is.

mgieseki commented 5 years ago

That's great news, thanks for the quick reply. Currently, the header and C files required to access the COM objects are only available as part of the source distribution. Would it be possible to provide a small, separate archive that just contains the configured, ready-to-use files? If that's too much work and not worth the trouble, I'd just keep using the files from the former SDK archive.

Edit: After a bit more testing, it would be sufficient, if you could provide the pre-configured IDL files (mainly miktexidl.idl and session.idl) without the need to grab the MiKTeX sources and run cmake on them. The type library and/or C stub files can easily be generated width midl/widl.

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