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From: Preben Randhol <randhol+valid_for_reply_from_news@pvv.org>
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Subject: Re: Trying to import a C function
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On 2003-11-10, Warren W. Gay VE3WWG <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca> wrote:
> Download my APQ project (see home page below), and look at the
> process I used for adapting to MySQL. I run a combination of
> scripts, and compile small C programs to generate Ada spec
> packages from C macro constants. I also use a c_mysql.c module
> to interface between APQ.MySQL.Client.adb and MySQL's C
> libraries. This was necessary with MySQL, because some things
> in MySQL require you to work with structure pointers to
> members within. I didn't want to rely on structure padding
> and offsets not to change etc.

Thanks. Will have a look!

Preben
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