Hi,

Does anyone know of any way at all to call a 16-bit DLL from a 32-bit
application? I know this sounds strange, but I have my reasons - trust me!
For the record, I'm using Delphi 3 and Delphi 1.

In fact, if anyone knows for sure that this isn't possible then I'd
appreciate that too.

Thanks,
Robin.

On Sun, 5 Apr 1998 05:50:31 +0100, "Robin Balmforth" <rob...@enterprise.net>
wrote:

I believe the zip file is of the same name (call32nt.zip).

Perhaps, you could just write the program in 16-bit and use call32nt to access
32-bit DLLs. If this is't good enough, perhaps you could contact the author of
call32nt. I don't have the DOCs for call32nt handy, so you'll have to download
it and read the "readme" file.

Hope this was of some help.

If you do find a way to use 16-bit DLLs in 32-bit apps, please let me know

                                                        DJ
                                                        (p...@gate.net).

Hi,

You'll have to make a thunk layer for the 16 bit DLLs you want use from
your 32 bit code. You can find more information from Microsoft site
or from MSDN. I've used it couple of times and it works, but it is not
the easiest things to do. And you have to have different tools than
Delphi to do it (VC++ 16 bit, ASM compiler etc.)...

Hope this helps,

Ville Mikkonen

Chris
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Hi.

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Hiki Takehito.

I have heard that thunking is going away in win98.  The reason is for
stability.  Thus the 16<-->32 95 code is history.

Is this true?  Does this mean 16 bit code will not run on 98?  Or is it
just the 16 <-> 32 thunking that won't work.

-John_Mer...@Brown.EDU

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