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From: iam@waikato.ac.nz (Ian McDonald)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Dynamic Run-Time import with C++
Message-ID: <1991May27.123911.3813@waikato.ac.nz>
Date: 27 May 91 00:39:11 GMT
Organization: University of Waikato, New Zealand
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I'm trying to call a DLL routine dynamically (ie using a LoadLibrary) but I am
having difficulty because of C++ type checking.  In C you can go :

  (*lpFunc) ((LPSTR) Buffer,512);

for example if lpFunc is of type FARPROC.  (This is taken from page 20-33 of
the SDK Guide to Programming).  With C++ it will not let me do this because of
the type checking.  I have tried (and failed) to make a typedef to do this
although I am not too experienced with typedef.  Could somebody help me out by
showing me a way to have a typedef equivalent to FARPROC but allows parameters
(defined in advannce) or do a typecast to use FARPROC properly.

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