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win32 dll in visual studio 6.0 VS visual studio 2005/2008 questions

Greg Ellis21-Feb-09 15:10

21-Feb-09 15:10

Hi Guys,

I am wondering if anyone can give me the scoop on this.

I am developing a dll file and I have some very good developers telling me that if I develop the dll in Visual Studio 2005/2008 in win32 unmanaged c++ that the dll will not work on win98/me and that it will be dependant on MSVCP80.DLL. They tell me that if I develop the dll in Visual Studio 6.0 that it will work on older operating systems like win98/me and it wont be dependant on MSVCP80.DLL.

Now is this true? and if so is there anyway that I can develop the dll using visual studio 2005/2008 so that it will still work on win98/me and NOT be dependant on MSVCP80.DLL?

Thanks,
Greg

Re: win32 dll in visual studio 6.0 VS visual studio 2005/2008 questions

Gary R. Wheeler21-Feb-09 15:50

Gary R. Wheeler

21-Feb-09 15:50

The only way to develop using VS2005/8 and not be dependent on the C/C++ runtime library is to avoid any references to it.

How important is it to maintain support for Win98/ME?

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Re: win32 dll in visual studio 6.0 VS visual studio 2005/2008 questions

«_Superman_»21-Feb-09 19:11

«_Superman_»

21-Feb-09 19:11

Dependencies are inevitable.
That's why an installation package is created to distribute an application.

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Re: win32 dll in visual studio 6.0 VS visual studio 2005/2008 questions

Stuart Dootson22-Feb-09 13:46

Stuart Dootson

22-Feb-09 13:46

I believe you can statically link the C and C++ run-times into your DLL, so it won't try and load the VS2005/2008 DLLs when it's used.

If you do this, you need to take care with memory management of objects passed back from your DLL.

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a short code for basic graphics

Redribs21-Feb-09 14:02

Redribs

21-Feb-09 14:02

I need a c++ source code that will create a simple triangle in an x-y plane so that scaling, rotation and translational transformations can be carried out on it... any help before thurs, Please? thnx

Re: a short code for basic graphics

Stephen Hewitt21-Feb-09 22:18

Stephen Hewitt

21-Feb-09 22:18

On Windows using the Win32 API you can start looking at the SetWorldTransform[^] function.

Steve

Re: a short code for basic graphics

Iain Clarke, Warrior Programmer23-Feb-09 4:45

Iain Clarke, Warrior Programmer

23-Feb-09 4:45

I'm not sure what you're after.

To draw a triangle, you need a drawing surface, so if you're using MFC, you need a view class.

For your actual question, you just need to store 3 sets of X/Y coordinates however you like.

For a code sample, have a look at:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/recipes/CoordWarp.aspx[^]

It's got lots of points making up long lines - but you can use just 3 if you like...

(Hint, Polygon, with n = 3)

Good luck,

Iain.

Codeproject MVP for C++, I can't believe it's for my lounge posts...

Developing WM5 app, runs differnet in Debug versus Release

uzziah021-Feb-09 12:50

uzziah0

21-Feb-09 12:50

I'm developing a small app for WM5 and it is using FindFirstFile() and FindNextFile().
These work just great in the WM5 emulator in debug mode.

I created a CAB file and ran it on my Axim, but it didn't work correctly.
I left the state to Release, as opposed to Debug and ran it in the WM5 emulator, and got similar problems.

I think this is working differently for more then just these, but I'm not sure.

The code I am having problems with is looking for a specific file by pattern, and then looking to see if there are others that follow the same pattern; I'm looking for the newest dated version of the file that fills the pattern.
like \Windows\abc*.txt
it works great in debug mode on the emulator,
but not so on my Axim or in release mode on the emulator.

Does anyone know what is happening here?

Re: Developing WM5 app, runs differnet in Debug versus Release

uzziah022-Feb-09 15:37

uzziah0

22-Feb-09 15:37

OK. I figured this out.
It was a missing include file.
Kind of strange that Visual Studio in Debug mode would reconcile these without any warnings, and then just skip over these function calls when run in Release mode or on the device.
I don't know if there is some build setting to at least warn me about this; if anyone knows of a warning, let me know.

Thanks

check existence of file in C++

meixiang621-Feb-09 11:18

meixiang6

21-Feb-09 11:18

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>
#include <unistd.h> // getcwd() definition
#include <sys/param.h> // MAXPATHLEN definition

using namespace std;

int main()
{
string database;
<snip>
cout << "Select full path of Database" << endl;
cin >> database;
</snip>

How do I check the existence of a file in C++?

In perl it would be something like:
if (!database){
print "No database found\n";
exit;
}

I tried looking online for hours but all the suggestions didnt work so far..

Thanks in advance!

Re: check existence of file in C++

Iain Clarke, Warrior Programmer21-Feb-09 11:43

Iain Clarke, Warrior Programmer

21-Feb-09 11:43

do a seatch for PathFileExists.

Iain.

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Re: check existence of file in C++

meixiang621-Feb-09 13:49

meixiang6

21-Feb-09 13:49

PathFileExists is a windows API and I am running C++ in linux so it doesnt work as far as I know and have been trying unless I goofed up...

Re: check existence of file in C++

enhzflep21-Feb-09 13:59

enhzflep

21-Feb-09 13:59

I think you should be able to use _findfirst and _findnext on 'nix, I can't remember. They're in io.h

Or you could try to open the file and look at the function result....

Re: check existence of file in C++

meixiang621-Feb-09 14:14

meixiang6

21-Feb-09 14:14

After a lot of wrong examples from googling the web, I finally find something that works:

myFileName = file;
inp.open(myFileName.c_str(), ifstream::in);
inp.close();
if(inp.fail())
{
inp.clear(ios::failbit);
cout << "No File found " << myFileName.c_str() << endl;
exit(5);
}
else
{
cout << "Found File" << myFileName.c_str() << endl;
}

Thanks, hope this might help someone else...

Bye the way is this board only for Visual C++ or can someone working on Linux with C++ ask Qs?

Re: check existence of file in C++

Rajesh R Subramanian21-Feb-09 21:08

Rajesh R Subramanian

21-Feb-09 21:08

meixiang6 wrote:
Bye the way is this board only for Visual C++ or can someone working on Linux with C++ ask Qs?

We pretty much assume Visual C++ here, mostly even MFC is assumed to be used. Just in case you hadn't noticed the name of this board, it is MFC/C++.

You can ask C++ on Unix/Linux questions here, but you must let us know of it when posting your question.

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Re: check existence of file in C++

David Crow21-Feb-09 14:34

David Crow

21-Feb-09 14:34

meixiang6 wrote:
...I am running C++ in linux...

It helps to mention this little requirement up front.

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Re: check existence of file in C++

uzziah022-Feb-09 15:38

uzziah0

22-Feb-09 15:38

or FindFirstFile()

Re: check existence of file in C++

David Crow21-Feb-09 14:34

David Crow

21-Feb-09 14:34

meixiang6 wrote:
How do I check the existence of a file in C++?

It's not C++, but you can use _access().

Re: check existence of file in C++

Stuart Dootson22-Feb-09 13:48

Stuart Dootson

22-Feb-09 13:48

The standard way of checking file existence on *nix (it works on Windows as well) is stat or fstat[^], I believe.

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Re: check existence of file in C++

meixiang622-Feb-09 16:29

meixiang6

22-Feb-09 16:29

I will give it a try tommorrow...thanks!

Re: check existence of file in C++

Dan22-Feb-09 21:25

Dan

22-Feb-09 21:25

You can also try in Windows,

if ( 0 == _access( database.c_str(), 0 ) ) {
     cout<<"No database found.\n"
}

and the nix equivelant is

 if ( 0 == access( database.c_str(), 0 ) ) {
    cout<<"No database found.\n"
}

How to check whether system is connected to internet using VC++?

Supra221-Feb-09 3:02

Supra2

21-Feb-09 3:02

Hi,
I have a requirement where I need to find out whether internet is available or not. How to achieve this using VC++?

THanks
Suhas

Re: How to check whether system is connected to internet using VC++?

Iain Clarke, Warrior Programmer21-Feb-09 11:46

Iain Clarke, Warrior Programmer

21-Feb-09 11:46

You can use InternetGetConnectedState (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa384702(VS.85).aspx[^]) to check whether you *might* be connected - but the only guarantee is to attempt a connection to your desired website.

Iain.

Codeproject MVP for C++, I can't believe it's for my lounge posts...

Re: How to check whether system is connected to internet using VC++?

David Crow21-Feb-09 14:35

David Crow

21-Feb-09 14:35

Supra2 wrote:
How to achieve this using VC++?

See here.

how do i read the files from executable file?

balukk21-Feb-09 2:17

balukk

21-Feb-09 2:17

i need a help to read files in the .exe file. help me to solve this problem.

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