[PD-dev] help me with my DLL snafu

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

So, I have a little problem with DLLs.  I have a [hid] object.  The  
filename is hid.pd_linux, hid.pd_darwin, and hid.dll.  The Windows DDK  
HID library is called... hid.dll.  Arg.  It gets worse... my hid.dll is  
of course dependent on the Windows hid.dll.  So when Pd opens up my  
hid.dll, it looks for the Windows symbols in my hid.dll, and they are,  
of course, not there.

So I did a little LoadLibrary(), but that does not help because it  
seems that Windows wants to follow all of the links immediately when it  
opens my hid.dll, before even the setup function is called, so I get  
the errors before any function is called.

Any suggestions as to how to deal with this?

.hc

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