Hi, I would apreciate if someone could give me some advice please. In this example:
cfunction = function(theparameter:cint):cint;cdecl;external'theclib'; It seems that this will not build unless I have the file: /usr/local/include/theclib.h 1-Is this true? 2-Does the FPC compiler read this .h file? 3-Does the linker read this file? The C prototypes for the two functions that I want to use look like this: plPlotterParams * pl_newplparams(void) or: plPlotterParams * pl_newplparams and: int pl_setplparam (plPlotterParams * plotter_params, const char *parameter, void *value) or: int pl_setplparam (plPlotterParams * plotter_params, const char *parameter, char *value) The two set of prototypes exists because of a switch: "NO_VOID_SUPPORT" to accept different compilers. 1 - Does anyone knows which case my compiler uses? "void" or "no_void"? The first function "pl_newplparams" is suposed to allocate a structure then return a handle. It seems that it returns something different than "nil" but I am not sure if it is valid however. This pointer is used as a parameter for the second function "pl_setplparam". ERR := pl_setplparam(plotter_param,'PAGESIZE','letter'); As soon as I call the function I get an "access" exception at the offset 000000000. Although the function has 3 parameters, it could be the first one (the pointer) that has the wrong type! I have tried many things like this: type plplotterparams = record end; function pl_newplparams:plplotterparams; cdecl; external 'plot'; function pl_setplparam (plotter_params:plplotterparams; const parameter:PCHAR; value:PCHAR):cint; cdecl; external 'plot'; Can someone give me some hints on how to solve that problem. I have spent the whole week-end on these three lines and I am quite frustrated right now! The package is called "libplot" ("plotutils") and I was planning to put it on the web if I can get it to work. :( May be there is a book, documentation or an example file that I could use and was not aware of? Thank you for reading Alain Michaud _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal