Re: native dll's

[Francois Gouget]

On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, José Soriano Díaz wrote:
>     Hi there, I'm working in a telerobotics project and I need to link a
>
> windows dll in order to use a Cybernet Joystick.
>         First I tried to use the winAPI functions LoadLibrary,
> FreeLibrary and GetProccessAddress as I were working on Windows, and
> I recompiled my program with winelib:
>                 *. winemaker /my_path/
>                 *. ./configure
>                 *. make all
>         but it didn't create any executable, what I obtained was a
> lib*.so, because winemaker thought I was trying to compile a dll,
> not to use one.

To force winemaker to generate an executable simply use it as
follows:
 * type "winemaker --cuiexe /my_path" to indicate a console executable
 * type "winemaker --guiexe /my_path" to indicate a graphical executable

You can also use "winemaker -?" to get a list of options supported by
winemaker.
>     So my question is quite siple How can I link a native dll in
>
> a Unix project?

I think you have used the right approach: LoadLibrary /
GetProccessAddress / FreeLibrary. If that works for you then it's the
simplest approach.

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