Accessing .dll functions in CVI

[vehnasa1]

Hi,

I am trying to access different functions in the OpenAL32.dll. How is that accomplished? I have added the "OpenAL32.lib", but I do not see how to access any of .dll functions. Could someone get me going and provide some straight forward steps as to how to be able to uses the functions from the OpenAL32.dll in me CVI program. I could really really use the help.

Thanks.

[RobertoBozzolo]

There are really a lot of resources both on your machine and on this site that can help you in this matter: a simple search with ""dll" and "cvi" on NI support site returns several links among which you can start by reading this white paper, this FAQ and this KnowledgeBase entry. On the other side, this article is taken from the online help you have in your machine.

[vehnasa1]

Robert,

thanks for the info, it was really helpful. Although, in the links that I have explored on the topic I find that I need the header (.h) file and in this case I do not have that. Is there another way to access the .dll in CVI without the header file?

[RobertoBozzolo]

Not that I know of. You can try building the include file by yourself if you have the list of functions exported from the dll: see this link.