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    Wrapping Library with DLL

    Hello all,

    New to thinBasic, but not Basic in general. I've coded in many different dialects of Basic over the years, QBasic, Visual Basic, PureBasic, etc. I tried looking at a few examples and I think I get it. I'm just wondering do I put the DLL in the same folder with the thinbasic wrapper resides, do I need the header files if its a C library?

    Say I wanted to wrap SDL2, would I do something like this?

    Const SDL_INIT_VIDEO = 32 'value converted to decimal from hex
    
    Type Rect
     x as single
     y as single
     w as single
     h as integer
    End Type
    
    Declare Function SDL_Init Lib "SDL2.dll" "Alias SDL_Init" (ByVal flags as single) as single
    
    Last edited by LeftyG; 08-02-2022 at 01:06.

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    Ciao LeftyG

    welcome to thinBasic.

    Yes you did it almost, only Alias must be outside string of the alias. And data type, docs seem telling that SDL_Init accepts an v and returns an Integer

    Here an example. I do not know SDL but should work.
    uses "console"
    
    
    Const SDL_INIT_VIDEO = 32
     
    Type Rect
     x as single
     y as single
     w as single
     h as integer
    End Type
    
    
    'https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL_Init
    Declare Function SDL_Init Lib "SDL2.dll" Alias "SDL_Init" (ByVal flags as UInt32) as Integer
    'https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL_Quit
    Declare sub SDL_Quit Lib "SDL2.dll" Alias "SDL_Quit" ()
    
    
    integer iResult
    printl "Calling SDL_Init ..."
    iResult = SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO)
    printl "Result: ", iResult
    if iResult <> 0 Then
      printl "An error occurred calling SDL_Init"
    else
      printl "Result was OK"
    end if
    
    
    WaitKey
    SDL_Quit
    
    Let me know.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LeftyG View Post
    I'm just wondering do I put the DLL in the same folder with the thinbasic wrapper resides?
    Yes, put the DLL in the same folder where you have your thinBasic script or your bundled thinBasic exe.
    thinBasic will search for dll first in that folder.


    Quote Originally Posted by LeftyG View Post
    Do I need the header files if its a C library?
    You need to declare inside thinBasic the dll exported functions in order to use them. Keeping attention to correct data matching.

    I think someone in the past used SDL library here and created a list of declares
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    Thanks. I figured out how to make a wrapper using a DLL.

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    Oh, we're kindred spirits, and this just requires a good translation of the header file.

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