Luca Olivetti <l...@ventoso.org> schrieb am Mo., 13. Mai 2019, 23:14:
> A sizeable part of my day job is to program PLCs in the worst software > environment ever (for the curious, simatic tia portal, actually I'm > mostly using the older, only marginally better, step 7, but the times > they are a-changin'). > Said piece of sh^H^Hfine engineering, provides a dll to automate some > tasks, however, being a steaming pile of...fine engineering, it's made > with dot net and the instructions on how to use it only mention visual > something (page 12 of this document > > https://support.industry.siemens.com/cs/attachments/108716692/108716692_TIA_Openness_GettingStartedAndDemo_V14SP1_en.pdf > ). > > Is it possible to someway use it with fpc? > I tried the "import type library.." menu item that lazarus provides with > no success ("error loading the dll", strangely enough localized even if > my lazarus is in english, so I suppose that comes from windows). > > The file command under Linux says: > Siemens.Engineering.dll: PE32 executable (DLL) (console) Intel 80386 > Mono/.Net assembly, for MS Windows > You could try to host the .Net CLR. I've never done it, but there exists code for that for Delphi: https://sourceforge.net/projects/dotnetruntimelibraryfordelphi/ So that should be possible in FPC as well. Regards, Sven >
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