opening an idl file using qt

[biramb]

hey,
I'm trying to open a idl file using qt, i found out activeQt tool but i couldn't work it out, and i'm not sure it's possible to do so with it.

thanks for the help

[mrjj]

@biramb said:

activeQt

HI and welcome.
You can make COM servers and clients with Active Qt
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/activeqt-index.html

Its not really clear what you are trying to do
"idl" often used in RPC calls. ?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/670630/what-is-idl

Maybe you can say what project does so U can get better help :) ?

[biramb]

i have a device that connect's to my computer, and the only way to extract data is using idl file that came with the device.
the problem is compiling the project because i didn't really understand how to use the activeQt,

[mrjj]

@biramb
there is not any samples on how to talk to device??

[biramb]

@mrjj
there are, but they are only using vs2005, so it a bit difficult to fugure out a way to move to qt

[mrjj]

@biramb said:
well normally it would be running tools on the idl

http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/activeqt-index.html
and
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/activeqt-container.html

(Compile the IDL into a type library using the MIDL tool (part of the compiler installation)

i have no idea what to use with mingw