Re: Problems calling a function from a DLL file

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From: Rudy Velthuis (TeamB)
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 14:23

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In article <3ddf8143@newsgroups.borland.com>, Adams says...

> Hi, am having a problem with calling a function located in a DLL file, 
> Here are the declaration in C:
> 
> extern "C" BOOL __declspec(dllexport)StartLinkFile(CString 
> strFile,CString port);

CString seems to be an MFC type. Not very clever to export that from a 
DLL to be used by different languages.
 
> I tried porting this code into Delphi but was unable to! anybody can help?

No, I'm afraid this is too specific for VC++. They should have used 
char* (PChar) instead.
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Rudy Velthuis (TeamB)

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 fall out." - Alan Ross Anderson

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