Newbie DLL question

[Kevin Hamon]

Hi there,

I need to use a .dll file in C.
How can I do to use/call its functions ?

Thanks in advance,


KH.

 

[Mike Wahler]

Hi there,

I need to use a .dll file in C.

The language discussed here, ISO standard C,
does not support '.DLL's or any other such
operating system-specific mechanisms. See:
http://www.angelfire.com/ms3/bchambless0/welcome_to_clc.html

How can I do to use/call its functions ?

I'd ask for information about DLL's from their inventor:
www.msdn.microsoft.com

For further discussion, see a newsgroup about Window
programming, e.g. comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32

-Mike

 

[Eric Sosman]

I'd ask for information about DLL's from their inventor:
www.msdn.microsoft.com

Off-topic, but for the record: Microsoft "invented" DLLs
in exactly the same way they "invented" browsers, the Web, C,
binary arithmetic, the integrated circuit, electricity, and
the Gregorian calendar.

 

[Finny Merrill]

(e-mail address removed) (Kevin Hamon) wrote in

Hi there,

I need to use a .dll file in C.
How can I do to use/call its functions ?

Thanks in advance,

This isn't as much a C program as a windows program. Ask
in a windows programming newsfroup.

 

[dg]

Off-topic, but for the record: Microsoft "invented" DLLs
in exactly the same way they "invented" browsers, the Web, C,
binary arithmetic, the integrated circuit, electricity, and
the Gregorian calendar.

append to list

dos (baught form some pour fellow in seatale)
windows (halled out of xeroxes trash bin)

 

[Mark McIntyre]

dos (baught form some pour fellow in seatale)
windows (halled out of xeroxes trash bin)

two things:
1) you need a spell checker
2) so what if Bill bought QDOS, and hired some ex-PARC developers ?
Do you think that IBM invented the PC from scratch? Or that C sprang
full-fledged from DMR's head, and he didn't borrow any ideas from
elsewhere?

 

[dg]

two things:
1) you need a spell checker
2) so what if Bill bought QDOS, and hired some ex-PARC developers ?
Do you think that IBM invented the PC from scratch? Or that C sprang
full-fledged from DMR's head, and he didn't borrow any ideas from
elsewhere?

oops typed into a news mine

 

[Randy Howard]

append to list

dos (baught form some pour fellow in seatale)
windows (halled out of xeroxes trash bin)

gw-basic, stolen and extended from Heathkit.

 

[Eric Bernard]

Interesting how such a dumb question can end up in another fight about
microsoft.

This indeed does not belong to this newsgroup, but what you need to read is
in this page:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dllproc/base/dynamic_link_libraries.
asp?frame=true

P.S. Yeah, read the whole thing before attempting to use them.

 

[Eric Bernard]

Interesting how such a dumb question can end up in another fight about
microsoft.

This indeed does not belong to this newsgroup, but what you need to read is
in this page:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dllproc/base/dynamic_link_libraries.
asp?frame=true

P.S. Yeah, read the whole thing before attempting to use them.

That was
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dllproc/base/dynamic_link_libraries.
asp?frame=true
Stupid outlook cut the link (if that caused an issue to you)

 

[Ben Pfaff]

That was
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dllproc/base/dynamic_link_libraries.
asp?frame=true
Stupid outlook cut the link (if that caused an issue to you)

Um, you wrapped the URL above, too.
(Why should URLs *ever* be line-wrapped? It causes more problems
than it solves.)

 

[Kevin Hamon]

Hi there,

I need to use a .dll file in C.
How can I do to use/call its functions ?

Thanks in advance,


KH.

Use DLL in C :
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dllproc/base/using_run_time_dynamic_linking.asp

 

[Joona I Palaste]

Use DLL in C :
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dllproc/base/using_run_time_dynamic_linking.asp

And how might this work on a non-Microsoft system, which (hint hint)
*also have C implementations*?

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[Paul Hsieh]

(e-mail address removed) says...

And how might this work on a non-Microsoft system, which (hint hint)
*also have C implementations*?

You might like to look at:

http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/pe.zip

Its specific to WATCOM C/C++ for *building* DLLs and accessing them from *DOS*
in a way that is seperate from the way Microsoft does in its DLLs (Microsoft's
conventions in general are not followed.) However, it also contains sources
for reading PE executables (and DLLs), and could be modified to access ordinary
Windows DLLs.

I've added the comp.programming newsgroup, so that people who are interested in
answers can chime in/see this as well.

 

[Emmanuel Delahaye]

Um, you wrapped the URL above, too.
(Why should URLs *ever* be line-wrapped? It causes more problems
than it solves.)

http://brutalhugs.com/slink/

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