I would really love to use the flext library but I'm creating an external for a portfolio in my course and my lecturer reckons I could go without using an SDK like flext :S He's just being difficult!
Matt
From: Marc Lavallée odradek@videotron.ca To: Matthew Laughlin bunglenutter@hotmail.com Subject: Re: [PD-dev] Having trouble creating .lib file from a .dll in VC++ 6.0 Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 16:19:00 -0500
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 08:36:27PM +0000, Matthew Laughlin wrote:
Hi there,
I'm trying to build a test external just to see how it's done, I have
made
my DLL in VC++ 6.0 but it doesn't create a .lib file which I need to
build
the object. I have tried using implib.exe but all I get is some crap
like:
'C:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
Anyone have any ideas?
You should try the flext library; it works like a charm. I use it to create externals for Linux and Windows (with the Bordland "gratis" compiler instead of the "non-free" VC++).
-- Marc
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On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Matthew Laughlin wrote:
I would really love to use the flext library but I'm creating an external for a portfolio in my course and my lecturer reckons I could go without using an SDK like flext :S He's just being difficult!
If I were in your position, I'd do what he says, then instruct your compiler to produce .asm's, and hand him the assembler code. "Yes, Professor, assembly language is so much more manly. You made me see the light. I thought you'd appreciate it". That's all that this dude deserves.
That's unless your code is so small it's not worth it, or that you are trying to do things flext can't do, or you already have a large investment in non-flext code and the switchover would be long, ...
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On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 06:28:37PM -0500, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
That's unless your code is so small it's not worth it, or that you are trying to do things flext can't do, or you already have a large investment in non-flext code and the switchover would be long, ...
Flext is worthy even for small externals; Saturday morning, I had to produce a Windows version of my ascii externals (not something I like to do, but some people I want to help are still being enslaved by M$). I was able to recompile flext and my externals in one hour, and I guess it would be the same to create a Max version.
The only problem is that flext is being linked statically to the compiled externals, which inflates the size of externals by ~ 80k; maybe there's a way to link flext dynamically...
-- Marc
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