/webview2-in-mingw

Proof of concept for embedding WebView2 in applications using the MinGW toolchain.

Primary LanguageC++

PoC: WebView2 in MinGW

Although it is not documented, it is in fact possible, and even reasonable, to use WebView2 in MinGW. Once you have the necessary files from the NuGet package, it's simply a matter of using the CINTERFACE variants of the COM functions.

I don't know what the best practices are for implementing COM classes in C so I came up with my own approach for the event handlers. It should generally be good enough for this use case, although there is a lot of room for improvement. The point of this demo is more to show that 1. it is possible to do this 2. how one might do it from a technical sense. Hopefully, actual implementations will be better than my weeknight hack. :)

Usage

Simply compile with a MinGW toolchain. Msys2 + MinGW64 should work fine. Run make:

make

and if it works, you will have webviewdemo.exe in your working directory.