Using Borland C*+ turbo explorer...

[RedOne]

Hi all, i'm a new user with a (maybe simple, but not to me) question regarding plugin development...
I'm trying to create the plugin using the mentioned ide (here's a link http://www.borland.com/downloads/download_turbo.html ), but after compiling the plugin (yep, it compiles itself!!) and putting it in the server directory, nwnx doesn't recognize it correctly, giving a: "* Error: can not find creation function in nwnx_demoplugin.dll"
As cam be seen, i'm using the demoplugin which cames with nwnx. So, i could have done something wrong in the project definition (no idea, really, first time i try it out :/).
So... any idea what could be wrong?
Any suggestions are welcome ^^
Thanks for any help!

[Papillon]

Does the resulting DLL export the function GetClassObject ? You can check with tools like Dependency Walker (not sure if Borland includes something compareable). Somehow you need to convince the compiler to export it.
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Papillon

[RedOne]

I've made a check with the given utility...
It does export a "_GetClassObject" (note the _ before)... maybe that's the problem...
But, on the c code it looks correctly, no "_" before Oo

Ok... after some google and web search, i've found out that every Borland generated dll has a trailing underscore for "C" decorated function names...
I will look for a way to modify the default name mangling behaviour, since i don't consider feasible to ask for a "_GetClassObject" call inside the plugin system too ^^"

Otherwise... could be feasible to make an "adapter" plugin?

[RedOne]

Nevermind...
Found a way to define a new external function to the dll with the correct name (basically, tell the compiler to add an alias with the right name for that function inside the dll).
Now the problem is that the plugin gets loaded ("* Plugin 6 is loaded.") but the server crashes -_-"""
I will need to figure out what was wrong...

ps:
For anyone interested, here's how to do the exported function aliasing in that ide:
http://web.archive.org/web/20031207213941/http://bcbdev.com/articles/bcbdll.htm#example1

[Dracos]

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