Exiv2 with Visual Basic Script
Added by Andreas K over 11 years ago
Hello,
is there a way to use exiv2 in Visual Basic Script without using the command line utility?
Where do I get a library for Windows to include in VBS-Code?
Thanks!
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Replies (3)
RE: Exiv2 with Visual Basic Script - Added by Robin Mills over 11 years ago
The MSVC build is provided to compile exiv2 (the command-line program, libraries and sample programs) for Windows. Alternatively, you can use msys/cygwin to build using the unix tools on windows.
The results are native DLLs and you'll have to deal with a wrapper to access them from Visual Basic. This is non-trivial. If you're using the .Net framework, a wrapper was written a couple of years ago, however I don't believe it has been maintained and I haven't built it for some time.
You'll appreciate that although Windows is an important computing platform, we're not able maintain wrappers for language bindings. Andreas and his contributors have done a wonderful job with the exiv2 C++ library. If you're interested in accepting the challenge of building and maintaining the exiv2net wrapper, the code is available from: http://code.google.com/p/exiv2net/
RE: Exiv2 with Visual Basic Script - Added by Andreas K over 11 years ago
Thank you. I understand unfortunately it isn't easy tzo use exiv2 with VSB. Too bad.
RE: Exiv2 with Visual Basic Script - Added by Robin Mills over 11 years ago
Andreas
I'm sorry you're disappointed.
You must be aware that the leader of this project is also called Andreas. And the person who wrote exiv2net is also called Andreas. Maybe now, we are 3. I suggest you download the exiv2net binaries from google code and try them as I believe they will work. I built them a couple of years ago and ran the sample application which was written in C#. If you like what you see, you can email the exiv2net Andreas - he's friendly and helpful and might be interested in bringing this up to date.