I am trying to write an interface between RSPEC (ruby flavoured BDD) and a Windows application. The application itself is written in an obscure language, but it has a C API to provide access. I've gone with Ruby/DL but am having difficulties getting even the most basic call to a DLL method to work. Here is what I have so far, in a fil...
A follow up to an earlier question, showing the part that fails when I try to get the error message from my target library: require 'gt4r' @@test_environment = "INCLUDE=C:\\graphtalk\\env\\aiadev\\config\\aiadev.ini" @@normal_user = "BMCHARGUE" describe Gt4r do it 'initializes' do rv = Gt4r.gTD_initialize @@normal_user, @@norm...
To allow access to the Win32 API from a scripting language (written in C), I would like to write a function such as the following: void Call(LPCSTR DllName, LPCSTR FunctionName, LPSTR ReturnValue, USHORT ArgumentCount, LPSTR Arguments[]) which will call, generically, any Win32 API function. (the LPSTR parameters are essentially be...