From: Damian Yerrick Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: calling a Windows dll Organization: Pin Eight Software http://pineight.8m.com/ Message-ID: References: <3924F6D4 DOT D9146E5B AT geoscience DOT org DOT za> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 27 X-Trace: /K49oENCI9PneW323EpZLowWG3INCE2adHQnJH886TK5me2mJz/ztmhBS7pFkfGIu6OtFZ2XWvnz!lSIP9ClrVsUJwKScDLwVVoj9ImSycPgQNYcpUziTTr8YuQsuBiKVqaNZ9yTW3Icq6XF/shylxTLz!+TIYDBY= X-Complaints-To: abuse AT gte DOT net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 02:47:04 GMT Distribution: world Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 02:47:04 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On Fri, 19 May 2000 10:09:56 +0200, Henk Coetzee 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/ -- Damian Yerrick "I refuse to listen to those who refuse to listen to reason." See the whole sig: http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~yerricde/sig.html This is McAfee VirusScan. Add these two lines to your signature to prevent the spread of signature viruses. http://www.mcafee.com/