Re: The best possible way to call a function in a shared library

[Anh Vo <anhvofrcaus@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at 6:22:06 PM UTC-7, John Smith wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at 9:18:12 PM UTC-4, Anh Vo wrote:
> > On Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at 5:38:13 PM UTC-7, John Smith wrote:
> > > On Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at 9:15:13 AM UTC-4, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> > > > On 10/10/2017 05:39, John Smith wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > Now, when I try to have my DLL loaded, it gives me an error saying
> > > > > that it doesn't see it.
> > > > Check the OS rules about loader search path.
> > > > 
> > > > -- 
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Dmitry A. Kazakov
> > > > http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
> > > 
> > > I'm assuming that it has something to do with gnatls (sorry, I'm not sure how this works on Windows.)  This did work shortly after I got the static libraries to work (they still do, the shared libraries do not work though) and I'm trying to figure out what I screwed up.
> > > 
> > > This is what I'm seeing when doing gnatls:
> > > 
> > > > gnatls -v
> > > 
> > > GNATLS GPL 2016 (20160515-49)
> > > Copyright (C) 1997-2016, Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > > 
> > > Source Search Path:
> > >    <Current_Directory>
> > >    C:\GNAT\2016\lib\gcc\i686-pc-mingw32\4.9.4\adainclude
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Object Search Path:
> > >    <Current_Directory>
> > >    C:\GNAT\2016\lib\gcc\i686-pc-mingw32\4.9.4\adalib
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Project Search Path:
> > >    <Current_Directory>
> > >    C:\GtkAda\lib\gnat
> > >    C:\GNAT\2016\i686-pc-mingw32\lib\gnat
> > >    C:\GNAT\2016\i686-pc-mingw32\share\gpr
> > >    C:\GNAT\2016\share\gpr
> > >    C:\GNAT\2016\lib\gnat
> > 
> > As a quick test, place all *.dll in the question at C:\Windows\System32
> > 
> > Anh Vo
> 
> But it's not searching for those DLLs in there.
> 
> I could put them into something like "C:\GNAT\2016\lib\gnat", but ultimately that's not what I want.

If you decide to put them in GNAT, then put them in C:\GNAT\2016\bin.