<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>libvlc.dll is linked at build time, which means that LoadLibrary() is performed automatically by windows when axvlc.dll loads.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>regarding your problem, they are 2 issues you need to consider when using LoadLibrary(TEXT("ABC.dll"))</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>- ABC.dll cannot be found because it is not reachable from PATH or isn't in the same directory as loader (.i.e AXVLC.DLL)</div><div>- ABC.dll has external dependencies (i.e it needs to load DLLs itself) which cannot be found</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>you will need to examine the error from GetLastError() to find out what happenned.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Damien</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><br><div><div>On 20 Feb 2008, at 06:26, Howard wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="Section1"><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="teal" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: teal; ">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="teal" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: teal; "> Does anyone know how the ActiveX loads the libvlc.dll? <o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="teal" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: teal; ">I wanna load a dll, say, ABC.dll in the getVLC() in activex/plugin.cpp and I made a cab file including the ABC.dll with libvlc.dll, axvlc.dll and other plugins of the VLC.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="teal" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: teal; ">However, the return value of LoadLibrary( TEXT(“ABC.dll”) ) is always a null pointer.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="teal" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: teal; ">I also tried to load other library which was included in the cab file, say libaccess_udp_plugin.dll, as well as the ABC.dll but it was success.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="teal" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: teal; ">Can anyone tell me why?<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="teal" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: teal; ">Please!<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="teal" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: teal; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="teal" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: teal; ">PS. I’m running this on windows XP with service pack 2.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="teal" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: teal; ">PS. The ABC.dll was compiled separately, not with VLC.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="teal" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: teal; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="teal" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: teal; ">Best Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="teal" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: teal; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="teal" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: teal; ">Howard.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>vlc-devel mailing list<br>To unsubscribe or modify your subscription options:<br><a href="http://mailman.videolan.org/listinfo/vlc-devel" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://mailman.videolan.org/listinfo/vlc-devel</a><br></div></span></blockquote></div><br></body></html>