From: Philliam Auriemma <phil.auriemma@...>
Date: 2010-01-30T06:00:05+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie question: Accessiong non-Windows DLL's

On Jan 29, 12:50 pm, Rich Maniscalco <tmpr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am very new to Ruby, as in about 1 week new.  General Ruby programming
> is going well.  However, I am having trouble accessing functions in
> non-Windows DLL's.  We have custom DLL's used to talk to test equipment.
> These DLL's are created in C using Visual C++.  They work fine with the
> original C program.  I'm want to use Ruby scripts that access these
> DLL's.  The documentation gives examples of accessing Windows libraries,
> which worked for me.  But my stuff is giving me the "`initialize':
> GetProcAddress:" error.  I also created a very basic DLL which just
> prints "Hello World" and had the same Ruby error.
>
> Is there a pointer to some documentation/code examples I can read?  Or
> can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
>
> I'm using Ruby 1.8.6 on Windows XP and Cygwin bash shell.
>
> Thanks,
>
>   Rich
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I think you may be able to use the Win32API module for that.

http://www.rubytips.org/2008/05/13/accessing-windows-api-from-ruby-using-win32api-library/