[R] dyn.load() for windows

[Duncan Murdoch]

On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 03:29:55 -0700 (PDT), Utsav Boobna
<catch_utsav at yahoo.com> wrote :

>Hi 
>I am using Borland C++ compiler 5.5 and R 1.7.1
>
>got the dll using 
>
>c:\> bcc32 -u- -6 -O2 -osample.dll -WDE sample.c

I don't know the bcc32 command line options.  Can you examine the
sample.dll file (using e.g. "tdump sample.dll", if you have tdump, or 
"objdump -x sample.dll" using the objdump tool from our tools
collection), and make sure it really is a DLL file?

Once you work out what is necessary to produce a DLL that works,
please write up a short description and send it to me to include on my
page

http://www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/murdoch/software/compilingDLLs/

I don't think there's anything there now that would help you, but you
might browse it for inspiration...

Duncan Murdoch

>
>
>Then in R I used
>
>> dyn.load("sample.dll")
>
>Error in dyn.load(x, as.logical(local),
>as.logical(now)) : 
>        unable to load shared library "C:/sample.dll":
>  LoadLibrary failure:  %1 ist keine zulässige
>Win32-Anwendung.
>
>(Its in German ... meaning "%1 is not a valid Win32
>application.")
>
>
>
>Thanks,
>Utsav
>
>--- Duncan Murdoch <dmurdoch at pair.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 01:58:27 -0700 (PDT), Utsav
>> Boobna
>> <catch_utsav at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> 
>> >Hi,
>> >   I compiled several C program files on Borland
>> C++
>> >compiler to get one dll output (as instructed in
>> the
>> >file readme.package). Now when I try to load this
>> >*.dll to R using dyn.load(), then the machine gives
>> >the error message "*.dll is not a valid windows
>> >data,....". The out put of R is 
>> >
>> >I am working on win2k.
>> >What could be the possible reason for that?
>> 
>> Please show us your code and the exact error message
>> (using cut and
>> paste).  It might also help if you gave an exact
>> description of how
>> you produced the DLL (though I'm not familiar with
>> BC++, someone else
>> might be), and gave version numbers of BC++ and R.
>> 
>> Duncan Murdoch
>>
>
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