Hi All,

I have following function in win32 DLL

BSTR _stdcall dec(unsigned long isize,long* iReturn);

I want to call this function in Perl script. I have tried different options in Perl but stuck on this. Please help me out and provide your valuable solutions. I have tried the following code but did not get success: 

#!/usr/bin/perl  
use Win32::API;  
my $xy=0;  
my $cc=\$xy;  
Win32::API->Import('MyDLL', 'char* dec(long a,long* b)')or die $^E;  
my $var=dec(4,$cc);  
printf("%s",$var);

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So how to get the return string using char*

Thanks in Advance, :-)

In reply to Perl Win32::API by manojghosh

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