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hi everybody
For our scientific project at the ETH zurich, we bought a framegrabber from sensoray (http://sensoray.com/products/2250data.htm). it comes with a windows SDK, but when that one is installed, it only works for ms visual c++. The support of that site can't give us any support on dev-cpp.
Does anybody of you know how I can get that SDK to run in Dev? the package contains some lib and dll files (two matching pairs of lib and dll, and a separate folder with a lot of dll files). I tried to add them to the compiler options, and i've read some tutorials, but I couldn't manage to get it working.
I'm using win vista, and the extended wxDev-Cpp. because of that wx extension, I can't simply copy my code and run it in visual c++ to solve the problem...
thanks a lot in advance.
The lib files will be export libraries, and will need to be converted using the reimp tool (in c:\dev-cpp\bin). I've never used it so don't ask me how, but people usually manage when I have suggested it in the past. ;-) The DLL files should work normally so long as thay provide a C linkage rather than C++ linkage interface.
Alternatively you can load the libraries and entry points you need at runtime using the Win32 API LoadLibrary() and GetProcAddress() calls.
You do know of course that xwDev-C++ will work with Microsoft compilers as well as GCC don't you? I am not sure how well it works however.
The other obvious suggestion is that you use the VC++ implementation of wxWidgets.
One other solution is to use the GCC 4.x (you'll need the 'experiemntal' MinGW build), but it apparently works with Microsoft export libraries.
Clifford