[Haskell-cafe] Haskell to call Microsoft COM (Dispatch)

Taral taralx at gmail.com
Tue Jan 31 13:38:44 EST 2006


On 1/30/06, Gracjan Polak <gracjanpolak at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there any library to make Haskell call Microsoft COM functions using
> Dispatch? E.g I don't need the full COM binary functionality, scripting is
> enough. Google didn't seem to find anything interesting... beside rolling my
> own using FFI :)

A bit of searching turns up very little, but rolling your own for
simple support is not difficult. OleInitialize, CoCreateInstance,
class IUnknown, class IDispatch, class Variant...

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