Re: DLL, VB and Borland C/C++

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From: Robert Taylor
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 06:26

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Sylvain Souche wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying desperatly to call a DLL created with Borland C/C++ 4.5 in a
> VB 3.0 application, but VB always complains about a so called "Bad
> Calling Convention Error". This Error message is not very documented,
> and Borland Help files are worth nothing, so...
> 
> If anyone know about this problem, could you tell me.
> 
> Thanks for e-mail replies
> 
> --
>         Sylvain Souche
>         Sylvain.Souche@supaero.fr

You are probably not exporting the function correctly in the Borland C++ 
DLL.  I am pretty sure that VB 3.0 requires imported functions to be 
'FAR PASCAL'.  

If you are not declaring the function as FAR PASCAL, it will default to 
'CDECL'; which will cause the above mentioned error...

-- Bob T.

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