OpenEuphoria

dll headache

• Posted by void <void at xs4all.nl> Jan 07, 2002
• 420 views

I'm trying to create a dll to access C functions in an external program. 
The C program comes with an API, and includes source code, header files, 
lib file, makefile (from with I created obj files). 
I'm a beginner so I've read many messages in this forum about dll's and 
tried things like bcc32 -tWD ... and tried swig-eu, but I failed to 
build a working dll (no Export functions show up with quick view).
The Euphoria part on how to read from a dll is clear, but building a dll 
from C source gives me headaches, I have tried things with Borland C++ 
5.02 and Visual C++ 6.00, I also have Watcom.

My questions for now are:
What files are needed for a dll: *.c, *.h, *.obj *.lib ?
Then how do build the dll from these files?
Do I need to add C source code?


(I'm trying to access the C functions of the Wordnet API
http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn (open source))