Re: Calling DLLs from SQR on Win95 or NT

[Joan Hudson <joan@MEDIWARE.COM>]

If the 3rd party dll was made specifically to be used
with sqr, putting the location in the ini file will work.
However, it seems unlikely that this would be the
case.

You will probably need to make a "translator" dll
which tells sqr about the calls you will be making.
See the examples in ufunc.c (unix) or extufunc.c
(win/nt).

joan
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Molitor <cmolitor@YAHOO.COM>
To: Multiple recipients of list SQR-USERS
Date: Tuesday, April 06, 1999 7:50 AM
Subject: Calling DLLs from SQR on Win95 or NT


>I need to call a 3rd party dll from within an SQR.  This SQR will
>always be run on an NT App Server.  It looks like the Interoperability
>section of the SQR User Guide for version 4.3 (pages 165-166) describes
>different rules for windows based calls?  Do I just need to add a line
>to the [SQR Extension] section of my SQR.INI to name my dll and I can
>make calls to any functions in it?
>
>I have searched the list archives and have only found references to
>extufunc.c, which sounds like it would require re-compiling the SQR
>executables.  Any help would be appreciated.
>
>-CM
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