[PD-dev] help me with my DLL snafu

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

I thought of both of those too, and they also seem messy.  Hmm...   
maybe a hid_windows.dll that's loaded by my hid.dll.  That right now  
seems to be the best option.  Do I have to explicitly load every  
function with GetProcAddress()?

.hc

On Dec 20, 2005, at 6:16 AM, Thomas Grill wrote:

> Hi Hans-Christoph,
> if you really want to stick to your name, the only chance i see is to  
> load all symbols from the Windows hid.dll dynamically (LoadLibrary and  
> GetProcAdress).
> It depends on the number of functions you are using but should be  
> doable in principle.
> Apart from that this _could_ work, it's a really dirty solution.
>
> You could also name your object hidwin.dll and load it as a library ;-)
> Or use a hid abstraction, encapsulating a hidwin object.
>
> best greetings,
> Thomas
>
>
> Am 20.12.2005 um 06:54 schrieb 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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