Interfaces in DLL's *without* using COM?

Hello all,

I have a bunch of classes (derived from tinterfacedobject)
and simple class factories that I would like to put in a DLL
and make them available to applications *without* using
COM or type libraries.

The class factory routines all look like this:

Function Get_myobject : iMyinterface; Stdcall;

Would it be possible to put these classes and class factories in
a DLL, and then simply call the class factories that reside in the
DLL from an *.EXE program?

Of course I would make sure that the executable knows the
complete declarations and class ID's of all interfaces.
Could that work? And more importantly, would reference
counting still work?

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Replies

• Re: Interfaces in DLL's *without* using COM? posted by Soeren Muehlbauer on Thu, 27 May 2010
• Re: Interfaces in DLL's *without* using COM? posted by Nick Hodges on Thu, 27 May 2010