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XAVIER COYRAS wrote:
> 
> I am trying to call from java a function contained in a  Dll written is C++.
> This function has an argument which type is PCHAR.
> I can't find the corresponding type in Java.
> 
> Function in the Dll is function_name(pchar param_name);
> 
> How can I access that function in Java?
> 
> I have tried
> - private static native void function_name(StringBuffer param_name);
> - private static native void function_name(String param_name);
> - private static native void function_name(Char[] param_name);
> 
> and none of them work.
> 
> Thanks

It's unlikely you'll ever be able to make such a call directly.
I think you need to investigate using JNI to build a glue layer that
will handle converting java's Unicode strings and characters into
the native platform's strings and thus into whatever pchar is.
You won't be able to do that without some extra C, as far as I know.

I'm doing similar things now with one of our own api libraries.

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