OK, I know nothing of the internals of a DLL file.

I get the idea there are different "calling conventions" in them? I need to get this FreeType DLL to not give me errors when i try to link it (using a derelict style loading process that uses the win32 LoadLibrary and GetProc functions)

Windows linkage? C Linkage? Something I don't know I can modify, specify.. Anything. I got FreeType compiling to a DLL in MSVC.NET with no ZLib, just like I want, I got the import modules, the loader.. I just need this last bit, and D will finally get to use FreeType. :)

I hope someone knows more about DLL's than I do. :) I hoped that someone would have had a FreeType binding already, but in this stage of this language I think that D = Do it youself...

Thanks in advance...

-- 
Thanks,
Trevor Parscal
www.trevorparscal.com
trevorparscal@hotmail.com

Trevor Parscal wrote:
> OK, I know nothing of the internals of a DLL file.
> 
> I get the idea there are different "calling conventions" in them? I need to get this FreeType DLL to not give me errors when i try to link it (using a derelict style loading process that uses the win32 LoadLibrary and GetProc functions)
> 
> Windows linkage? C Linkage? Something I don't know I can modify, specify.. Anything. I got FreeType compiling to a DLL in MSVC.NET with no ZLib, just like I want, I got the import modules, the loader.. I just need this last bit, and D will finally get to use FreeType. :)
> 
> I hope someone knows more about DLL's than I do. :) I hoped that someone would have had a FreeType binding already, but in this stage of this language I think that D = Do it youself...
> 
> Thanks in advance...
> 

I was just wondering... why arent you using the Derelict version of this library?

From derelict/sdl/ttf.d:

/* This library is a wrapper around the excellent FreeType 2.0 library,
   available at:
    http://www.freetype.org/
*/

Seems like a duplication of effort.

OK, So I got the DLL compiled, got an import module for it, and I am loading it dynamicly..

I can call

FT_Init_Library(&library);

and it is sucessfull (well, the function doesn't return non zero wich means success) but now I am running into another problem, which I am pretty sure has NOTHING to do with D at all...

When I call

FT_New_Face(library, toStringz(path), 0, &font);

That function does fail.

Just thought I would put that out there, but I am going to send this problem over to the FreeType newsgroup where they might have a more complete knoweldge of these functions..

ALMOST DONE!

Thoughts are welcome. I am posting code tonight

www.dsource.org/projects/terra

Please feel free to download and play with it.

-- 
Thanks,
Trevor Parscal
www.trevorparscal.com
trevorparscal@hotmail.com

Trevor Parscal wrote:
> OK, So I got the DLL compiled, got an import module for it, and I am loading it dynamicly..
> 
> I can call
> 
> FT_Init_Library(&library);
> 
> and it is sucessfull (well, the function doesn't return non zero wich means success) but now I am running into another problem, which I am pretty sure has NOTHING to do with D at all...
> 
> When I call
> 
> FT_New_Face(library, toStringz(path), 0, &font);
> 
> That function does fail.
> 
> Just thought I would put that out there, but I am going to send this problem over to the FreeType newsgroup where they might have a more complete knoweldge of these functions..
> 
> ALMOST DONE!
> 
> Thoughts are welcome. I am posting code tonight
> 
> www.dsource.org/projects/terra
> 
> Please feel free to download and play with it.
> 

When I try to run the Test.exe, I get a message saying that it cant find MSVCR71D.dll. Why in the world does a D application need this runtime?

Kyle Furlong wrote:
> Trevor Parscal wrote:
> 
>> OK, So I got the DLL compiled, got an import module for it, and I am loading it dynamicly..
>>
>> I can call
>>
>> FT_Init_Library(&library);
>>
>> and it is sucessfull (well, the function doesn't return non zero wich means success) but now I am running into another problem, which I am pretty sure has NOTHING to do with D at all...
>>
>> When I call
>>
>> FT_New_Face(library, toStringz(path), 0, &font);
>>
>> That function does fail.
>>
>> Just thought I would put that out there, but I am going to send this problem over to the FreeType newsgroup where they might have a more complete knoweldge of these functions..
>>
>> ALMOST DONE!
>>
>> Thoughts are welcome. I am posting code tonight
>>
>> www.dsource.org/projects/terra
>>
>> Please feel free to download and play with it.
>>
> 
> When I try to run the Test.exe, I get a message saying that it cant find MSVCR71D.dll. Why in the world does a D application need this runtime?
Thats a great question. I don't have any code that specifies that library to be included...

Maybe it's because I compiled FreeType with MSVC... Those sneaky bastards!

I'm gonna get to the bottom of that! In the mean time, See what can be done for exisiting bugs if you will, or find others...


-- 
Thanks,
Trevor Parscal
www.trevorparscal.com
trevorparscal@hotmail.com

Trevor Parscal wrote:
> Kyle Furlong wrote:
> 
>> Trevor Parscal wrote:
>>
>>> OK, So I got the DLL compiled, got an import module for it, and I am loading it dynamicly..
>>>
>>> I can call
>>>
>>> FT_Init_Library(&library);
>>>
>>> and it is sucessfull (well, the function doesn't return non zero wich means success) but now I am running into another problem, which I am pretty sure has NOTHING to do with D at all...
>>>
>>> When I call
>>>
>>> FT_New_Face(library, toStringz(path), 0, &font);
>>>
>>> That function does fail.
>>>
>>> Just thought I would put that out there, but I am going to send this problem over to the FreeType newsgroup where they might have a more complete knoweldge of these functions..
>>>
>>> ALMOST DONE!
>>>
>>> Thoughts are welcome. I am posting code tonight
>>>
>>> www.dsource.org/projects/terra
>>>
>>> Please feel free to download and play with it.
>>>
>>
>> When I try to run the Test.exe, I get a message saying that it cant find MSVCR71D.dll. Why in the world does a D application need this runtime?
> 
> Thats a great question. I don't have any code that specifies that library to be included...
> 
> Maybe it's because I compiled FreeType with MSVC... Those sneaky bastards!
> 
> I'm gonna get to the bottom of that! In the mean time, See what can be done for exisiting bugs if you will, or find others...
> 
> 

I probably wont be helping out in the next week, its finals time here.