Embedding A Type Library As A Resource

bluethecow · October 12th, 2006, 08:22 PM

I'm trying to embed a type library into my COM DLL so that the DLL can be used in multiple languages (specificaly, I'm trying to use the dll in vb). I have a resource file called resource.rc, and its only contents are this line:

Code:

TYPELIB "typeLib.tlb"

I have typeLib.tlb in the same folder as the rc file (the project folder), but I get this error:

Quote:

quote:.\resource.rc(2) : error RC2135 : file not found: "TYPELIB.TLB"

Is there a special place I need to move the typelib to or some reference to the location I need to write to indicate where it is? Writing the full path instead of "typeLib.tlb" doesn't work either. What am I doing wrong?

bluethecow · October 13th, 2006, 03:08 PM

Heh, silly me- all I was writing in the RC file was

Code:

TYPELIB "lib.tlb"

I didn't know that you had to do something like this:

Code:

3 TEXTINCLUDE DISCARDABLE
BEGIN"1 TYPELIB
""lib.tlb""\r\n"
"\0"END

kminguy · July 10th, 2013, 11:52 PM

As I don't know what to do, but this was BBBBig Help.
Thanks a lot.