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Re: First catch of the day [message #42157 is a reply to message #42153]

Wed, 12 January 2005 06:23

Haje Korth
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Registered: May 1997

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Robert,
The library msvcrt.lib should be included in your MS Visual C++
installation. On my machine it is in "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual
Studio .NET 2003\Vc7\lib". The def files are pretty trivial. They look like
this:
LIBRARY IDL_SPHINT

EXPORTS IDL_Load @1

Hope this helps,
Haje

"Robert Barnett" <retsil@zipworld.com.au> wrote in message
news:41E4D6CA.4030908@zipworld.com.au...
> Does anyone know how to get around this one?
>
>
> I have had problems running IDL processes using both Watsyn and the IDL
> Broker on Siemens E.Soft workstations. The E.Soft application runs in
> full-screen mode obscuring the IDL windows. I've been trying to work out
> a way to keep the IDL windows 'always on top'.
>
> To solve this, I'm using CALL_EXTERNAL to access MS-Windows functions
> from IDL. The particular library is C:\WINNT\system32\user32.dll which
> is common over windows 98/NT/2000/XP.
>
> I create a wrapper as recommended in the IDL documentation
> result =
>
CALL_EXTERNAL('C:\WINNT\system32\user32.dll','GetForegroundW indow',WRITE_WRA
PPER='user32GetForegroundWindow.c')
>
> I successfully compiled using Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003.
> cl -D_DLL -DWIN32 -D_MT /nologo /I"D:\RSI\IDL60\external\include" /c
> "GetForegroundWindow.c" /Fo"GetForegroundWindow.obj"
>
> However, I experience problems when attempting to link the compiled file
> into a DLL. The contents of the generated C program
> (GetForegroundWindow.c) indicate that I should use the following command:
>
> link /out:"GetForegroundWindow.dll" /nologo /nodefaultlib /dll
> "GetForegroundWindow.obj" /def:"GetForegroundWindow.def"
> "D:\RSI\IDL60\bin\bin.x86\idl32.lib" msvcrt.lib kernel32.lib
>
> It appears that only kernel32.lib is included with Microsoft Visual C++
> yet msvcrt.lib is not. Is this library really required? Do you know
> where I can obtain this library from?
>
> The linking also fails because there is no GetForegroundWindow.def file.
> This is explained in the documentation of the
generatedGetForegroundWindow.c
> * Note that these 2 commands are probably not quite enough: You
> * will also need to supply a linker options file to control which
> * symbols are exported. Under Unix, this file has various names
> * (Solaris calls it a mapfile). Microsoft Windows calls it a def file.
> * Read your systems linker documentation for further information.
> Do you know where I can obtain documentation on how to generate this
> .def file?
>
> Any assistance would be appreciated and would assist me in making the
> IDL product usable in the supplied environment.
>
>
> --
>
> nrb@
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> imag
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