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4) You will abide by any additional copyright restrictions which the author may have placed in the article or article's description. | First lets start a new delphi project. For the purpose of this exercise,
we will select the DLL Wizard.
2. Save the project as whatever you want, but remember the name as you
will need this for later use when you $define the library for conditional compilation.
3. add a unit to the DLL project, this is your DLL interface unit, name it something like myDLLInt.pas
4. No you are ready to code your DLL and interface.
Let start with 2 simple add/subtract functions that can be called from the DLL via the interface.
Here is the source to the actual DLL that we will use:
library adder;
uses
SysUtils,Classes,adderInt;
{$R *.res}
function addNumbers(num1:integer;num2:integer):integer;stdcall;
begin
Result := num1+num2;
end;
function subNumbers(num1:integer;num2:integer):integer;stdcall;
begin
Result:=num1-num2;
end;
exports
addNumbers,subNumbers;
end.
Notice that my units uses has the adderInt specified as I named my interface unit adderInt.pas.
These are the actual functions that will be called.
NEXT:
We must write an interface that will allow the calling of our DLL
functions form other applications namely C/C++ apps and of course Delphi apps.
The source code for your interface will look like this:
unit adderInt;
interface
{$IFNDEF ADDER}
function addNumbers(num1:integer;num2:integer):integer;stdcall;
function subNumbers(num1:integer;num2:integer):integer;stdcall;
{$ENDIF}
implementation
{$IFNDEF ADDER}
function addNumbers; external 'ADDER.DLL' name 'addNumbers';
function subNumbers; external 'ADDER.DLL' name 'subNumbers';
{$ENDIF}
end.
Thats it! Compile the project and now you should have a DLL called yourname.dll
To use this DLL you must do 3 things:
1. Place the yourfile.dll into the same directory as your EXE or Project you are writing.
2. Add the interface unit to your current project. eg mylibInt.pas
3. Add the interface to your uses in your project. eg. uses
sysutils,mydllint
there ya go, you just coded a DLL
Email me at support@cttech.net with any questions.
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1/15/2003 8:05:50 AM:
Please, give me a little concept about
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I have created the DLL. Howw do you
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