Posted by Richard Davey on 09/26/29 11:29

Hi Jay,

Monday, October 17, 2005, 4:15:58 PM, you wrote:

> Unfortunately I may not be able to have the DLL re-built with the
> COM interface. It is an older DLL containing engineering functions
> and it is huge. The real dingle here is that I only need to access
> some of the functionality of the DLL. I also do not want to compile
> it into PHP as it (the DLL) is a moving target.

If the resources allow, you could always write a small command-line
driven Windows app that passes arguments through to the DLL functions
and returns the results? Then exec() the app. It's a bit too messy for
my liking, but it's certainly an option.

Cheers,

Rich
--
Zend Certified Engineer
http://www.launchcode.co.uk

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