I came here to also post about regfree COM. If you can get it to work that seems like the ideal solution. See https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/s

I came here to also post about regfree COM. If you can get it to work that seems like the ideal solution. See https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/sbscs/creating-registration-free-com-objects https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/sbscs/creati... “Activation contexts enable COM objects to be used without requiring that they be registered.”