OpenEuphoria

Re: cdecl support

• Posted by euman at bellsouth.net Feb 25, 2002
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I was trying to follow the CAB file SDK.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q310618

I wanted wrappers written in Euphoria bypassing everything but the cabinet.dll
file

Euman
euman at bellsouth.net

Q: Are we monetarily insane?
A: YES
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Broker" <bkb at cnw.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 4:10 PM
Subject: RE: cdecl support


> 
> I looked at Mic's routines but they left me confused and it looked like 
> a bit of a hack job.
> 
> For working with cab files, you might want to look into the Setup API:
> 
> >From SDK:
> You can extract files from a cabinet in two ways. The first and simplest 
> way is to take advantage of the automatic cabinet processing built into 
> the setup functions.
> 
> <snipped details>
> 
> The second way to extract files from a cabinet is by using 
> SetupIterateCabinet.  This function iterates through each file in a 
> cabinet, sending a notification to a callback routine for each file 
> found. The callback routine then returns a value that indicates whether 
> the file should be extracted or skipped.
> 
> I haven't used them myself but I don't think they require cdecl calls 
> (being Windows CALLBACKs and all...)
> 
> -- Brian
> 
> Euman wrote:
> > Hi Brian
> > 
> > I gave up about a week ago trying to get it to work properly.
> > I  tried Matts routines, Mic has some routines in his GLU project
> > and some of my own routines that never seemed to work right.
> > 
> > I can get handles to the Euphoria routine but when a .dll requires
> > that these routines (Eu routines) be cdecl also, I threw up my hands.
> > 
> > I too would like a work around cause I wanted to use cabinet.dll
> > to extract files from compressed MS-Cab's.
> > 
> > Euman
> > euman at bellsouth.net
> > 
> > Q: Are we monetarily insane?
> > A: YES
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Brian Broker" <bkb at cnw.com>
> > To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
> > Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 3:16 PM
> > Subject: cdecl support
> > 
> > 
> > > For Matt Lewis and/or Euman:  Did you guys come up with a relatively 
> > > clean solution for defining cdecl callbacks?
> > > 
> > > For Robert Craig:  How long before a 2.4 alpha with cdecl support?
> > > 
> > > For anybody with source:  Anybody willing to build me a PD interpreter 
> > > with cdecl support?  I'm getting frustrated without it.
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > -- Brian
> > > 
> > > 
> 
> 
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