Re: Linking to DLL

From:
=?UTF-8?B?RXJpayBXaWtzdHLDtm0=?= <Erik-wikstrom@telia.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:00:56 GMT
Message-ID:
<Yff4k.59$U5.613@newsb.telia.net>
On 2008-06-12 20:56, SirCodesALot wrote:

Dear great minds,

I am having trouble linking to an external dll and was wondering if
anyone out there could help. Here is my class

Istat.h
#include "afxdisp.h"

using namespace System;
using namespace System::Runtime::InteropServices;

class IStatus : public COleDispatchDriver
{

public:
    IStatus() {} // Calls COleDispatchDriver default constructor

public:
    //CString GetBstrVersion();
    long GetNPort();

                [DllImport("ComACRsrvr.dll")]

                extern "C" {
                 void __stdcall Connect(long nTransport, long nIndex);
                 }
};

Istat.cpp: (relevate lines)
IStatus ParkerStage;
ParkerStage.Connect(3,0);

--------
The problem is when I compile. I have the ComACRsrvr.dll in the same
directory as the project, but when I compile i get the folling error
messages:
1>c:\\temp\Istat.h(32) : error C2059: syntax error : 'string'
1>c:\temp\Istat.h(32) : error C2334: unexpected token(s) preceding
'{'; skipping apparent function body

Could I be importing the library incorrectly or is there something I
am missing? Thanks in advance for your help!!!


You are writing C++/CLI and not C++ which makes it off topic in this
group, questions about DLLs are also off topic. You should try a MS
newsgroup (one in the microsoft.public.* hierarchy) or try asking in one
of the forums at http://forums.msdn.microsoft.com

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Erik Wikstr??m

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