From: ebritten@ea.oac.uci.edu (Eric Britten) Subject: Re: Calling LoadLibrary() 24 Jan 1997 23:34:08 -0800 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Original-To: drs Original-cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com In-Reply-To: <32E81CA2.5EA8@inxpress.net> Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com > Has anyone successfuly loaded a dll or driver using LoadLibrary? The > following seems like it should work; what am I doing wrong? > In Win32 you can't load 16bit dlls with LoadLibrary or LoadLibraryEx. There is a way to do it though, The Windows 95 Resource Meter applet loads a 16bit dll to call the free system resources function which does not exist in Win32. This is accomplished with Flat Thunks. Eric Britten. > /**********************code*************************/ > //dll_load.cpp > > #include > #include > > main() > { > HINSTANCE hLibrary; > hLibrary = LoadLibrary("MMSYSTEM.DLL"); > cout << "This is mmsystem's handle: " > << hLibrary << endl; > > if(hLibrary) > { > FreeLibrary(hLibrary); > return 0; > } > else > return 0; > > } > > /**************makefile************************/ > > #makefile for dll test > > dll_load.exe: dll_load.o > g++ -o dll_load.exe dll_load.o -mwindows > > dll_load.o: dll_load.cpp > g++ -c dll_load.cpp > - > For help on using this list, send a message to > "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help". > - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".