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xpi0t0s

extern "C" is C++ code, not C code. This is what you put in the C++ code to make it call the function in the DLL. You still need a prototype, and you extern "C" it to stop the compiler mangling the names, then the linker resolves the call.

xpi0t0s Mentor
25May2011,04:42
	extern "C" is C++ code, not C code. This is what you put in the C++ code to make it call the function in the DLL. You still need a prototype, and you extern "C" it to stop the compiler mangling the names, then the linker resolves the call.