From: Martin Hess <martinhess@...>
Date: 2009-07-15T00:30:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Using DLLs with my Ruby app

Have you tried without the @20 on the end?

On Jul 14, 2009, at 3:19 AM, Gin Mendi wrote:

> Hi,
>
> A new ruby user here. I want to try using ruby to use an API for
> accessing and retrieving data from a server. After doing some  
> research I
> learned about ruby/dl and tried the following in irb:
>
> ENV['PATH'] += ";C\\projects\\test\\lib" # to include the  
> dependecies of
> the API
> require 'dl/import'
>
> extend DL::Importable
>
> dlload "myAPI.dll"
>
> extern "void serverLogon(string, string, string, void, void)"
>
>
> but I get an error stating that the symbol "serverLogon" can't be  
> found.
> I'm pretty sure that I have the correct function name, but I  
> downloaded
> this DLL Export viewer to see the function names, and the application
> lists the exported function as "_serverLogon@20". I tried using
> "_serverLogon@20" in extern but I got a "can't parse the function
> prototype" error.
>
> I don't really have much experience with using dlls and I feel like  
> I'm
> missing something here. Can anyone clarify why I'm unable to use the
> functions in the dll provided and why it has such odd names?
>
> Many thanks!
>
> - Grish
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