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Article #1340Re: GlobalDosAlloc not exported in libs?
From: James Seidman
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 1991 21:19
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 1991 21:19
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In article <1991Feb13.165724.18629@linus.mitre.org> dkb@bistromath.mitre.org (Daryl K. Baker) writes: >Has anyone used GlobalDosAlloc and GlobalDosFree? I tried linking >my application which was using these rouintes and received >unresolved externals. (A side note: if you do a "strings" on >the library you can find references to these functions). Does >anyone have any info on this problem? The problem is that for some reason (which I won't even speculate about), prototypes for those two functions are not included in windows.h. The reason you need the prototype is because they, like almost all other API functions, are declared using the _pascal calling convention. Under this convention, an underscore is not prepended to the name. What's happening is that, since you have no prototype, your OBJ has a reference to _GlobalDosAlloc rather than GlobalDosAlloc and can't find it. Just write your own function prototype (by looking at the SDK reference) and make sure to declare it as a pascal-convention function, and it should work just fine. -- Jim Seidman (Drax), the accidental engineer. "It doesn't have to work... they'll be paralyzed just from laughing at me." - Dr. Who, _Shada_ UUCP: ames!vsi1!hsv3!jls INTERNET: hsv3.UUCP!jls@apple.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!clyde.concordia.ca!nstn.ns.ca!news.cs.indiana.edu!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!vsi1!hsv3!jls From: jls@hsv3.UUCP (James Seidman) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer Subject: Re: GlobalDosAlloc not exported in libs? Message-ID: <7204@hsv3.UUCP> Date: 14 Feb 91 21:19:34 GMT References: <1991Feb13.165724.18629@linus.mitre.org> Reply-To: jls@hsv3.UUCP (James Seidman) Organization: Video Seven / Headland Technology Lines: 24