gnat and winspool.lib

gnat and winspool.lib

[david]

hello,
I'm facing a problem with winspool library :
I use gnat 3.15p : the compilation and linking are made without problem but when I try the executable, an error occur : "library
winspool.dll not found ...."

After search on my computer, I only found winspool.h, winspool.lib and winspool.drv.

Has someone got a solution to use this library ?

thank you
David

Re: gnat and winspool.lib

[Martin Dowie]

"david" <marchandav@despammed.com> wrote in message
news:bv7qug$tul$1@s1.read.news.oleane.net...
> hello,
> I'm facing a problem with winspool library :
> I use gnat 3.15p : the compilation and linking are made without problem
but when I try the executable, an error occur : "library
> winspool.dll not found ...."
>
> After search on my computer, I only found winspool.h, winspool.lib and
winspool.drv.
>
> Has someone got a solution to use this library ?

You /might/ be able to get away with copying "winspool.lib" (to a path the
compiler
knows about), renaming it to "libwinspool.a" and compiling with
"-largs -lwinspool".

-- Martin

Re: gnat and winspool.lib

[david]

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Thanks, but this doesn't work : the compiler continues searching the dll and doesn't find it.
Perhaps I haven't understood when you say "a path the compiler knows about" : I put the renamed winspool.lib in the same repository
that others libraries I use (*.lib).

David


"Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com> a �crit dans le message news: bv8ng7$9fk$1@hercules.btinternet.com...
> "david" <marchandav@despammed.com> wrote in message
> news:bv7qug$tul$1@s1.read.news.oleane.net...
> > hello,
> > I'm facing a problem with winspool library :
> > I use gnat 3.15p : the compilation and linking are made without problem
> but when I try the executable, an error occur : "library
> > winspool.dll not found ...."
> >
> > After search on my computer, I only found winspool.h, winspool.lib and
> winspool.drv.
> >
> > Has someone got a solution to use this library ?
>
> You /might/ be able to get away with copying "winspool.lib" (to a path the
> compiler
> knows about), renaming it to "libwinspool.a" and compiling with
> "-largs -lwinspool".
>
> -- Martin
>
>

Re: gnat and winspool.lib

[Ludovic Brenta]

"david" <marchandav@despammed.com> writes:

> Thanks, but this doesn't work : the compiler continues searching the
> dll and doesn't find it.  Perhaps I haven't understood when you say
> "a path the compiler knows about" : I put the renamed winspool.lib
> in the same repository that others libraries I use (*.lib).
> 
> David

I think that winspool.lib is an import library, i.e. it contains stubs
for the functions exported by the DLL, and loads the DLL when the
program starts.  So, you indeed need the DLL at run time.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.

Re: gnat and winspool.lib

[david]

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ok,
I knew this solution but I wanted to avoid it.

Object ADA doesn't need to rename "drv" to "dll", I expected that Gnat should works like this.

David


"Jerry van Dijk" <somename@nospam.demon.nl> a �crit dans le message news: m2hdyfug1e.fsf@jvdsys.demon.nl...
>
> "david" <marchandav@despammed.com> writes:
>
> > Thanks, but this doesn't work : the compiler continues searching the dll and doesn't find it.
>
> Hmmm, if you google you find references to this kind of problem. Most common
> solution seems to be renaming the .drv to .dll.
>
> --
> --  Jerry van Dijk
> --  Leiden, Holland