Hello Peter!

24 Oct 94 20:13, Peter Knapper wrote to All:

 PK> I have spent the better part of a day trying to write a very
 PK> simple Squish message base passer using MSGAPI0.LZH (20 Nov 91)
 PK> under Borlands TurboC++ for OS/2 (V1.01) without much success.
 PK> Any MSGAPI call I make is trapped inside the .DLL with an
 PK> addressing exception. I have tried later versions of the .DLL (as
 PK> supplied with SQUISH V1.10). I have tried using C, STD, PASCAL
 PK> and FAST calling without success. I have even tried re-compiling
 PK> the MSGAPI source, without success. I have just heard that there
 PK> is a SQDEVxx.xxx file that is a later release and was wondering
 PK> if that might help cure the problem.

 I have used SQDEV200, I had a bit of a problem at first to do with
the packing of structs, but was solved with a few modifications to
the header files.

 The problem was that MsgApi uses an array of pointers to function,
which are called through macros. The struct containing the pointers
is allocated by the user, and in my case it was being packed with
dword alignment when it should have been byte alignment, and the
macros were calling a junk pointer...

 PK> I would also like to know if it is possible to get TurboC++ to
 PK> work with MSGAPI.DLL at all, or should I chuck TurboC++ and go to
 PK> Watcomm/Firststep/??? I only do a very small amount of work with
 PK> C, and do not wish to splurge out on a huge develpment kit that
 PK> will get very little use. I am not into PM apps (yet...;-)) and I
 PK> do like using the Borland IDE. Is the Watcomm IDE comparable at
 PK> all?

 I don't know, but I have got both GCC/2 and EMX/GCC to work with it.
These are the cheapest development kits you will get :-)

    - Geoff

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