[Gambas-user] Get structure from extern function?

[Fabien Bodard]

Scuse me I've made a bad read ..

Just do :

Version = LIBVersion()
Le 3 juil. 2014 12:05, "CJ" <lists at ...2828...> a écrit :

> I'm trying to receive a simple structure from a shared library but
> get an Type Mismatch error saying...
>
>   "wanted StructVersion, got Function instead in FMain:87"
>
> Before calling the extern function I declare the structure, variable
> and the library using...
>
>   Public Struct StructVersion
>       Major As Byte
>       Minor As Byte
>   End Struct
>
>   Public Version As StructVersion
>
>   Extern LIBVersion() As StructVersion In "libtest"
>
> But get the error when calling the function with...
>
>   Version = LIBVersion
>
> I did find an older post made by Benoît and using the code given in that
> post results
> in the same error (i.e "wanted StructTm, got Function instead in
> FMain:107")
>
> --8<-----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Public Struct StructTm
>    tm_sec As Integer
>    tm_min As Integer
>    tm_hour As Integer
>    tm_mday As Integer
>    tm_mon As Integer
>    tm_year As Integer
>    tm_wday As Integer
>    tm_yday As Integer
>    tm_isdst As Integer
> End Struct
>
> Private Extern localtime(timep As Pointer) As StructTm In "libc:6"
>
> --8<-----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Source: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.gambas.user/16080
>
> Am I missing something?
>
>
> [System]
> Gambas=3.5.90
> OperatingSystem=Linux
> Kernel=3.13.0-29-generic
> Architecture=x86
> Distribution=Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
> Desktop=XFCE
> Theme=QGtk
> Language=en_US.UTF-8
> Memory=1002M
> [Libraries]
> Cairo=libcairo.so.2.11301.0
> Curl=libcurl.so.4.3.0
> DBus=libdbus-1.so.3.7.6
> GStreamer=libgstreamer-0.10.so.0.30.0
> GStreamer=libgstreamer-1.0.so.0.204.0
> GTK+3=libgtk-3.so.0.1000.8
> GTK+=libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.2400.23
> OpenGL=libGL.so.1.2.0
> Poppler=libpoppler.so.44.0.0
> Qt4=libQtCore.so.4.8.6
> SDL=libSDL-1.2.so.0.11.4
>
>
>
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