On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 4:22 AM, Luís Oliveira <lolive...@common-lisp.net>wrote:
> Hello Mirko, > > On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 1:56 AM, Mirko Vukovic <mirko.vuko...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I am trying to link to a VISA library (VISA is used to control data > > acquisition instruments), visa32.lib compiled for Windows. The library > is > > shipped with Tektronix software. > > I'm surprised loading it works. That sounds like a static library. > You were correct. It did not. I found a dynamically loaded library (dll), and successfully linking to it. > > > Using `nm' I did find: > > 00000000 I __imp__viOpenDefaultRM@4 > > 00000000 T _viOpenDefaultRM@4 > > This looks like the stdcall calling convention. (See "Name-decoration > convention" in < > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/zxk0tw93(v=vs.71).aspx>.) > Passing ":convention :stdcall" to DEFCFUN should work. > > Now that I linked to the correct library, defcfun works: I already managed to crash clisp a few times due to access violation errors. Now I'm off to learn about passing pointer arguments > Cheers, > > -- > Luís Oliveira > http://kerno.org/~luis/ > If anything worth sharing comes out of this effort, I may put it out into the world. Mirko
