Importing DLLs when building

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BinaryItch

(Posted 2015) [#1]

I'm trying to integrate Flurry analytics into my Windows Phone 8 build. Flurry provide a dll to integrate into WP8 apps. I have written some 'glue' code to access functionality within the dll, but don't know how to specify that this dll should be included in the WP8 build.

Any ideas/pointers?

Pharmhaus

(Posted 2015) [#2]

You can find the Visual Studio project in the "MonkeyXPro\targets\winrt_winphone8\template" folder (it's called MonkeyGame.sln).
Once open you can add your dll as a reference to the project (right click the "reference" treeview entry and select add reference).

BinaryItch

(Posted 2015) [#3]

Great, thanks! I had the added issue of "a reference to a higher version or incompatible assembly cannot be added to the project", But that was resolved by unblocking the dll (right click - properties -> Unblock).

However, I'm still not able to access the functionality within the dll;

"error C2065: 'FlurryWP8SDK' : undeclared identifier (MonkeyGame.PhoneComponent.cpp)"

Generated from the following code within ...build\winrt_winphone8\monkeygame.cpp(:

class BBFlurry
{

public:

	static BBFlurry* GetFlurry()
	{
		if (instance == NULL)
		{
			instance = new BBFlurry();
		}
		return instance;
	}

	void onStartSession();
	void onEndSession();
	void setLogEnabled();
	void logEvent(String eventId);
	void logEvent(String eventId, bool timed);
	void logEvent(String eventId, List<String> params);
	void logEvent(String eventId, List<String> params, bool timed);

private:

	static BBFlurry* instance;
	
	List<Parameter> CreateParams(List<String> paramsList);

};

// Instance
BBFlurry* BBFlurry::instance = NULL;

// On start Session
void BBFlurry::onStartSession()
{
	FlurryWP8SDK.Api.StartSession(CFG_FLURRY_APIKEY);
}

// On End Session
void BBFlurry::onEndSession()
{
	FlurryWP8SDK.Api.EndSession();
}

// Set Log Enabled
void BBFlurry::setLogEnabled()
{
	FlurryWP8SDK.Api.SetLogEnabled();
}

// Log Event
void BBFlurry::logEvent(String eventId)
{
	FlurryWP8SDK.Api.LogEvent(eventId);
}

// Log Event - Timed
void BBFlurry::logEvent(String eventId, bool timed)
{
	FlurryWP8SDK.Api.LogEvent(eventId, true);
}

// Log Event with Parameters
void BBFlurry::logEvent(String eventId, List<String> params)
{
	FlurryWP8SDK.Api.LogEvent(eventId, CreateParams(params));
}

// Log Event with Parameters - Timed
void BBFlurry::logEvent(String eventId, List<String> params, bool timed)
{
	FlurryWP8SDK.Api.LogEvent(eventId, CreateParams(params), true);
}

// Create parameters
List<Parameter> BBFlurry::CreateParams(List<String> paramsList)
{
	List<Parameter> params = new List<Parameter>();
	for (int i = 0; i < params.Length(); i = i + 2)
	{
		params.Add(new Parameter(params[i], params[i + 1]));
	}
	return params;
}

I can see the FlurryWP8SDK namespace in the object browser...

Any ideas?

Pharmhaus

(Posted 2015) [#4]

Well, I'm not certain about this but you could try to set the properties of the reference to "Copy To Local = True" (When you select the reference in the treeview)
It is probably required to add the reference to the cpp project too (right click the cpp project and choose properties->References->Add Reference) then edit monkeygame.cpp and add something like this: (depends on the namespace, you probably need to look this up)

#using <FlurryWP8SDK.???.dll>
using namespace FlurryWP8SDK::???