Writing a wrapper for a DLL
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| Hey guys, I'd like to write a wrapper for a DLL that I found. What is the process for that? How do you get the Blitz language to see the DLL? |
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| It depends entirely on the DLL. |
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| Whats the DLL? As long as its a procedural C standard call libary and not like .net or managed or anything it should be doable. I was having problems with this a few weeks ago, and Kev helped out tremendously. Once you get the idea, and the basics down its really rather easy, just tedious. |
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| I found a tutorial post in the BLitz3D tutorial section, but the zip file with the tutorial doesn't open. Suck! |
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| Sweenie did a very good tutorial which you can find here: http://www.blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=38319 edit: Just realised you said the files are missing...post your email and I`ll send them over to you. If more people want it I`ll host it, just let me know :) |
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| I could use this as well, thanks .rikman. Email addy in profile. |
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| I`ve hosted the tutorial on my website in case anybody else stumbles across this thread in the future. It can be found at: http://www.ram-interactive.co.uk/C++WrapperTutor.rar Hope it helps, it certainly helped me :) |
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| Hi. Sorry, I must have removed that tutorial by mistake. It's back online now. =) |
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| Anybody know if we can basically *steal* stuff with this? For example, lots of games use binkw32.dll for video playback - can this be wrapped to Blitz3D? My brain is thinking there must be a lot of commercial game .dlls that we could potentially plunder. I've got 1,431 of them in my games directory on my gaming system. There must be some in there that are worth stealing? Any thoughts on this? |
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| Mmm, apparantly it just isn't that easy: http://gmc.yoyogames.com/lofiversion/index.php/t266960.html I no longer like this wrapper idea. Load of rubbish. |
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| here's some info on bink http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=RAD_Game_Tools_Bink_API |
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| I'm not writing it - "Sweenie" can do it. I've got lots more for him to work on. I suggest he finishes the Bink one pretty sharpish. Under my management, Blitz will rule the wrapper waves. |
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| I don't think I can afford a lawsuit from RAD Game Tools right now. =P |
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| Let me worry about any legalites. You just start the wrapper. All my Bethesda and Arkane Studios media requires the user to have that media preinstalled - I 'piggyback' the installations. The wrappers you are going to write for me are also going to 'piggyback' commercial dlls that are preinstalled. Nothing is being copied or distributed. Let me know when the Bink one is done. I don't particularly need it, but I think Blitzers in general have a use for that one. |
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| Piggyback anything without the license to use it in other projects is actually illegal. And commercial liceses do not give you the license to use any of the runtimes other than in the way given to you by them |
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