ok, thank you very much for your help
LoadLibrary() and GetProcAddress do the job now.
and it seems to work :)
bye
bb

> From: martin.peach@sympatico.ca
> To: ladataxi@hotmail.de; pd-dev@iem.at
> Subject: RE: [PD-dev] calling external code(.dll) from pd-external(win32xp)
> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:00:21 +0000
>
> best boy
>
> >maybe this is a misunderstanding. i try to explain.
> >i want to write a pd external (which will be a dll on win).
> >this pd external should contain code to call functions from another dll
> >which is not pd-related
> >
>
> I think you would still use the same two functions: LoadLibrary to load the
> dll and GetProcAddress to find the address of the function you want to call.
> It won't make any difference if you call the dll from another dll or an exe.
> LoadLibrary() and GetProcAddress() are part of the Windows API and not
> related to pd.
>
> Martin
>
> > >
> > > This little bit from s_loader.c shows how pd loads externals, which are
> >dlls
> > > on Windows:
> > >
> > > #ifdef MSW
> > > {
> > > HINSTANCE ntdll = LoadLibrary(filename);
> > > if (!ntdll)
> > > {
> > > post("%s: couldn't load external scheduler lib ", filename);
> > > return (0);
> > > }
> > > externalmainfunc =
> > > (t_externalschedlibmain)GetProcAddress(ntdll, "main");
> > > }
> > >
> > > Martin
>
>

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