Can I use a Windows DLL in a Mac OSX CodeWarrior Project?

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Culann mac Cabe - 05 Mar 2004 23:10 GMT

Hello Newsgroup,

I'm involved in a project to develop a Mac OSX application and am using CW
to do it - great environment. My development partner's technology which I
have to integrate is in the form of a Windows DLL. I do have the source
code to that DLL, but am wondering if anybody knows if/how I can use it in
my CW Mac OSX project. It would REALLY speed things up if I could do this.
If I cannot, I have the source for the Winows DLL, but on examining it I see
quite a bit of inline _asm... what would the position be here in terms of
compiling _asm code within a larger body of C++ under CW for Mac OSX when
the _asm is possibly (probably?) intel processor specific?

Much appreciate your help.... thanks,
Culann.

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lloyd - 06 Mar 2004 00:44 GMT

> Hello Newsgroup,
>
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> Much appreciate your help.... thanks,
> Culann.

Window's DLL are not usable on anything other ten Windows or,
with adapters, x86 LINUX.

So you'll need that source and you'll have write equivalent C as
necessary for that asm code.

Look on the bright side - you have some C code to work with, and
if it requires rewriting for the Mac environment it's easier to
read than the processor specific asm code.

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Can I use a Windows DLL in a Mac OSX CodeWarrior Project?