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- Subject: DLL's for Dummies
- From: "David Westbury" <David dot Westbury at ipaper dot com>
- Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 09:30:08 -0500
I recently got started with Cygwin. What a great package! Coming from a
Unix programming background I'm completely in the dark about DLL's. I need
to write C programs that access a third party API. I'm experimenting with
gcc but having disappointing results. I'm trying to compile and run an
example C program that came with the third party API package. Although I
don't know how to compile a program against a DLL I've found that the gcc
string below results in an error free compile/link. The resulting
executable runs to some degree. Some API calls execute correctly. However
using the gdb debugger it appears that random memory locations are being
modified as I step through the program. The program employs elements of a
structure as arguments to the API calls. The debugger shows that, in
addition to modifying the correct structure elements, random elements of
the structure are also being modified as I step over many of the API calls.
Also memcpy() appears to produce similar memory corruption. I'm hoping this
will ring a bell with someone who can guide me in the right direction.
Here is the gcc string I'm using:
gcc -g myprog.c -o myprog /path to third party dll/api.dll
I've been working with this for days. Forgive me if I haven't read the
right FAQ or documentation. I've scanned about everything I can find. Any
help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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