Re: Problems calling a function from a DLL file

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From: Adams
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 01:17

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I already asked the programmer to provide me PChar version instead of 
CString, but can you tell me what is an MFC type CString plz?

Rudy Velthuis (TeamB) wrote:
> 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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