OK, maybe I already know the answer to this question, but as there are smarter people in this forum than myself, I thought I’d ask.
Is there any way to utilize a windows DLL file on the Mac side of things? I have some USB devices that I would love to use on a Mac but the vendor only provides DLLs/driver files for Windows and Linux.
So just was wondering if there was some magical way to utilize driver files from other platforms via Xojo…
[quote=200453:@Jon Ogden]OK, maybe I already know the answer to this question, but as there are smarter people in this forum than myself, I thought I’d ask.
Is there any way to utilize a windows DLL file on the Mac side of things? I have some USB devices that I would love to use on a Mac but the vendor only provides DLLs/driver files for Windows and Linux.
So just was wondering if there was some magical way to utilize driver files from other platforms via Xojo…[/quote]
It could be possible to build a small Xojo program for Windows that interfaces with the DLL, and bottle it with Wine so it runs on Mac. Then you could have the Mac program and the bottled one communicate through IPC.
That is, if the DLL exposes COM objects that xojo can see, and if IPC works between a bottled program and a native one.