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    Default Tring to link against a DLL

    Hi there,
    I got a fingerprint scanner together with the driver, header files and a couple of files ftrscanAPI.lib and ftrscanAPI.dll. Presumably these have been built with MSVC.
    I'm working in Windows 7.
    My installation of Qt Creator uses Mingw and gcc but since I do have MSVC 2008 I suppose I could configure it to use MSVC, but I'd rather not for the time being.
    Anyway I have tried a test application which shows that the scanner runs fine.
    But trying to make use of the functions in a Qt C+ program is another story.
    I added
    Qt Code:
    1. LIBS += -LD:\\dev\\CplusPlus\\DemoFutronics\\ftrScanAPI
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    to the project file, but nothing doing, I get error messages at compile time
    like
    D:\dev\CplusPlus\DemoFutronics\mainwindow.cpp:-1: error: undefined reference to `ftrScanOpenDevice@0'
    D:\dev\CplusPlus\DemoFutronics\mainwindow.cpp:-1: error: undefined reference to `ftrScanGetImageSize@8'
    ...
    :-1: error: release/mainwindow.o: bad reloc address 0x2bc in section `.gcc_except_table'
    Look at the last one, it's really obscure.
    I dont know what I'm doing wrong.
    My strategy is now to load at runtime, I am making good progress, but it's unfortunate to have to go this way.
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    Default Re: Tring to link against a DLL

    Your LIBS line currently only specifies a search path, it is missing the actual library, i.e. -lnameoflibrary

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    Default Re: Tring to link against a DLL

    The path of the import library is
    D:\\dev\\CplusPlus\\DemoFutronics\\ftrScanAPI.lib
    the path of the DLL is
    D:\\dev\\CplusPlus\\DemoFutronics\\ftrScanAPI.dll

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    Default Re: Tring to link against a DLL

    So you should have:
    Qt Code:
    1. LIBS += -LD:/dev/CplusPlus/DemoFutronics -lftrScanAPI
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    -L specifies a directory (among many) that should be searched by the linker for requested libraries
    -l specifies the name of specific libraries that are requested to satisfy missing symbols in the program.

    I have used the forward slash in the path to avoid the annoyance of escaping back slashes. Qmake does the right thing with these.

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    Default Re: Tring to link against a DLL

    Thanks, I tried that, but I still get messages like this
    Qt Code:
    1. D:\dev\CplusPlus\DemoFutronics\mainwindow.cpp:199: error: undefined reference to `ftrScanOpenDevice@0'
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    etcetera

    By the way dynamic loading with QLibrary works, but i have resolve each of the function names and use function pointers.

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