• richard koch (5/5) Mar 30 2005 hi,
• Jarrett Billingsley (14/16) Mar 31 2005 I had this problem with a DLL; I solved it with a .def file.

richard koch <richard_member pathlink.com> writes:

hi,

how would one make a call to a dll function, that does not have a leading
underscore? i do not have a .lib for the dll.

thanx in advance

richard

"Jarrett Billingsley" <kb3ctd2 yahoo.com> writes:

"richard koch" <richard_member pathlink.com> wrote in message 
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 how would one make a call to a dll function, that does not have a leading
 underscore? i do not have a .lib for the dll.

I had this problem with a DLL; I solved it with a .def file.

Create a .def file (if you don't have one already), and in it, place the 
following:

IMPORTS
_name=dllname.name

So, if a function in blah.dll is called "Print", but D is looking for 
something named "_Print", you would write:

_Print=blah.Print

This sort of creates an alias, so that the linker can translate from the 
underscored name to the actual name.

Then just include the .def file on the commandline when you compile your 
program.