Well there is the first #ifdef

> On Jul 3, 2019, at 4:29 PM, John Melcher 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> There isn't.  You must instantiate Language Environment by either making your 
> Assembler Language routine the main() or calling it from a LE enabled "main".
> 
> void  main(char * parm)
> {
>    Int rc;
>     rc = Asmfunc();
> }
> 
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> On Behalf Of Joseph Reichman
> Sent: Wednesday, July 3, 2019 2:51 PM
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> Subject: Re: C DLL Code from Assembler
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> 
> I saw reference to DLL’s in the XL C bookshelf
> 
> Unlike Windows there doesn’t seem to be a DLLMAIN function
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> 
> 
>>> On Jul 3, 2019, at 3:46 PM, Tony Harminc <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Tue, 2 Jul 2019 at 17:24, Joseph Reichman <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I am hoping to have the Assembler Started task code call a C DLL,  On 
>>> the Windows end it would be C/C+ code calling the DLL obviously there 
>>> are differences because of the platform but I am guessing hose call 
>>> be handled by #IFDEF
>>> 
>>> In Windows Loading the DLL is a LoadLibrary Api then GetProcAddress 
>>> to get the exports
>>> 
>>> I am not sure how to do this in Assembler is there a LoadLibrary 
>>> Macro or a GetProcAddress macro to call the exported function
>> 
>> DLLs are discussed in the LE book _Language Environment Programming 
>> Guide_ in Chapter 4. Most of the examples and discussions are about C, 
>> but there are some brief assembler bits. And there is a discussion of 
>> assembler considerations (not just for DLLs) in Chapter 29, including 
>> the various macros you need.
>> 
>> To be clear, HLASM *is* explictly a supported language for both 
>> writing and invoking DLLs under LE. See "Support for DLLs" at the very 
>> start of Chapter 4.
>> 
>> I haven't played with this for many years, and am not current, but 
>> other people on this list have written about it - maybe John McKown?
>> And there was the Trainer's Friend guy (Steve Comstock?), who gave 
>> courses on this and related LE matters. He made his course materials 
>> available for sale when he closed the business. Maybe they are still 
>> out there? Ah - I see some of it is now on Amazon. Not free, but maybe 
>> a good deal. 
>> http://TOC.ASG.COM:8080/?dmVyPTEuMDAxJiY1NDU1NmVlYzI3Nzk4NzhlZT01RDFEMDcxOV85OTE1N185NjNfMSYmNTBjMjY5NGQ5NGMxYTRlPTEyMzImJnVybD1odHRwJTNBJTJGJTJGd3d3JTJFdHJhaW5lcnNmcmllbmQlMkVjb20lMkZ6T1MlMkVzaHRtbA==
>>  I have no connection, etc...
>> 
>> Tony H.

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