in reply to Re^2: Call a function from DLL
in thread Call a function from DLL

I just downloaded the DLL from here and the following code works for me now. I noticed there are 32 and 64-Bit versions of the DLL. Make sure you are using the one that matches your Perl (64 bit most likely, find out by perl -v).
use strict; use warnings; use Win32::API; my $FCWInitObject = Win32::API->Import( 'D:\ENV\USBaccess.dll', 'int FCWInitObject()', ); die "Error: ".( Win32::FormatMessage( Win32::GetLastError() ) ) if !$F +CWInitObject; my $FCWOpenCleware = Win32::API->Import( 'D:\ENV\USBaccess.dll', 'int FCWOpenCleware(int a)', ); die "Error: ".( Win32::FormatMessage( Win32::GetLastError() ) ) if !$F +CWOpenCleware; my $pointer = $FCWInitObject->Call(); print "Pointer $pointer\n"; my $success = $FCWOpenCleware->Call( $pointer ); print "Success $success\n";
Works in the sense that it outputs the following and does not throw an error:
Pointer 8350080 Success 0
That makes kinda sense since I don't have a device connected that could be "opened" but why does it then return a pointer in the first place?


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