How to link .LIB/.DLL/.OBJ files for PowerBasic 3.1/3.5 (GPIB card)?

[Tim Horton]

I have a GPIB card made by ICS electronics. They supply GPIB-32.DLL as well as:

GPIBQB.LIB
GPIBQB.QLB
DECL.BAS

Those are for use with Quick Basic (eg: QB /L gpibqb).

They also supply GPIB-32.lib and gpib-32.obj for C programming.

So, can I use any of those lib's, obj's, or DLL's with Power Basic 3.1 or 3.5 if I want to talk to this GPIB card or am I stuck with Quick Basic?


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[Michael Mattias]

You need to extract the OBJs from the LIB and $LINK those.

And unless I'm mistaken, there are some restrictions on the OBJ files (something to do with initialized data segment?)

And here I know I'm not mistaken: if the functions in the OBJs accept Microsoft BASIC strings as parameters, they will not work with PowerBASIC for MS-DOS.

[Tom Hanlin]

I don't think an .OBJ for QB is likely to be at all compatible with PB.
If they provide the source code for the library, you may have a chance
of porting it.


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Tom Hanlin
PowerBASIC Staff

[Michael Mattias]

This might be worth a little time...
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&i...=Google+Search

Returned 205 hits, none of which I inspected in detail.

Add "+MS-DOS" to the "+powerbasic +gpib" search and you're down to 12 hits.

MCM