OpenEuphoria

Re: Modifying the Euphoria interpreter

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Jun 12, 2007
• 558 views

CChris wrote:
> 
> Pete Lomax wrote:
> > 
> > CChris wrote:
> > > 
> > > Robert Craig wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > If you try to *execute* an open_dll under DOS,
> > >
> > > PS: if indeed mentioning open_dll() will cause ex.exe to error out because
> > > it is not supported under DOS32, even though it will never execute the
> > > function, then I'll have to use the machine_func() equivalent, that's all
> > > it will take I bet. Thanks for pointing this potential problem out.
> > 
> > I felt Rob was pretty clear on that. An "if platform()=WIN32" wrap around
> > the
> > open_dll() call (and etc) should be fine.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Pete
> 
> No, it's even worse than that.
> Remember that, if ex.exe tries to compile a program which mentions
> open_dll(), it errors out even though the the function won't ever be
> executed because the call is protected by a "if platform()=??? then".
> The error is generated before the platform dependent code is removed.
> But replacing the call with "machine_func(50,"kernel32.dll") won't hurt.

This works fine for me with ex.exe:

include dll.e

procedure foo()
     atom x
     x = open_dll("xxxxx.dll")
end procedure

puts(1, "No problem")

Regards,
   Rob Craig
   Rapid Deployment Software
   http://www.RapidEuphoria.com