Add support for non-COM interfaces #2066
                
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Well, this was a lot more complicated than I'd hoped! I'm not a big fan of interfaces that sort of pretend to be COM interfaces but don't actually inherit from
IUnknown. The thing is thatIUnknownaddresses a number of fundamental problems with lifetime and discovery that are just left in question without it. The solution here isn't perfect but it's a start and builds on a number of PRs that have already been completed. Here's what's new:You can use the
interfacemacro to declare a (new) interface that derives from an existing interface defined by thewindowscrate. Theimplementmacro can implement COM interfaces regardless of how they were declared.You cannot implement non-COM interfaces with the
implementmacro. SinceIUnknownis not available to reason about lifetime, theimplementmacro isn't much use, but you can simply use thenewmethod on the interface to "wrap" an implementation of the interface's trait (or traits) with a scoped implementation.interfacemacro to declare a (new) interface that does not derive fromIUnknown. This too can be implemented in the same way:IUnknownpointer so you don't have to worry about them doing bad things when dropped.Fixes: #453