From:	Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject:	Re: calling a Windows dll
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On Fri, 19 May 2000 10:09:56 +0200, Henk Coetzee
<henkc AT geoscience DOT org DOT za> wrote:

>We are busy replacing a piece of hardware (a gamma-ray spectrometer
>card) in a box which has run happily using djgpp on a the
>Win95 command line. One option for the new card comes with all
>its control functions in a dll. Can we access this from djgpp

Only if the card also comes with a vxd to access the dll.  Vxds, or
virtual device drivers, are shims to access Windows resources from a
DOS virtual machine.

>or do we have to get a different card/carry on trying to get
>the manufacturer to provide source/switch compilers. 

The best option for the community would be to get the manufacturer to
release the specs for the hardware.  The path of least resistance
would be to switch to mingw32:
  http://www.mingw.org/

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