Creating a DLL from a CCS C project

Brooke Taylor

Hello everyone,

I am trying to create a DLL from one .c file. I need to link the .c file to two directories in my C drive when building, and I must compile this in a Windows environment without access to Visual Studio.

On Linux, I was able to create a shared object that worked correctly in my program with these commands:
gcc -c -I/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/include/ -I/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/include/linux BERViewerImp.c
and
ld -G BERViewerImp.o -o libBERViewerInterface.so -lm -lc -lpthread

Now, I need to compile the same source as a DLL in a Windows environment using the equivalent Windows directories. I am currently trying to use CCS to build the DLL; I found the below link that tells me to create a linker command file with a line to generate my DLL.
http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/C6000_Dynamic_Linking#Building_a_Dynamic_Library

Is this the correct approach, or am I missing a simple way to create a DLL (in CCS or another program)?

Thank you,
Brooke

over 9 years ago

0 George Mock over 9 years ago

TI__Guru**** 232900 points

What CPU family does your target system belong to?

Thanks and regards,

-George

0 Brooke Taylor over 9 years ago in reply to George Mock

TI__Prodigy 40 points

I am running CCS v5.5 on a Windows 7 machine, and the dll will be referenced in a Java program running on the same Windows 7 machine. I haven't specified anything specific on CCS - I'm using a generic C project.

Thank you,

Brooke

0 Archaeologist over 9 years ago in reply to Brooke Taylor

TI__Guru* 84225 points

Just to be clear, you will be running this DLL on the Windows 7 x86 machine, not an embedded processor?

0 Brooke Taylor over 9 years ago in reply to Archaeologist

TI__Prodigy 40 points

Sorry if I was unclear - I will be referencing (or running) this dll on my native Windows 7 machine. My os is x64, but I need to compile in 32-bit to work with my 32-bit compiled java classes. I am only using CCS as a tool to generate the dll from my .c file, and am not going to run the dll on an embedded processor.

I don't know how to tell if my CCS is a 32 or 64-bit application, but I am hoping that the dll will be compatible.

Is creating and modifying a linker file in CCS the correct approach for generating a dll?

Do you know of any other way (besides Visual Studio) to generate a dll in Windows?

Thank you,

Brooke

0 George Mock over 9 years ago in reply to Brooke Taylor

TI__Guru**** 232900 points

CCS does not support building executables, DLL's, libraries, etc for execution on hosted systems like Windows, Linux, or Apple.

Thanks and regards,

-George

0 Brooke Taylor over 9 years ago in reply to George Mock

TI__Prodigy 40 points

George,

Rats. Do you know of any other way to create a DLL in windows?

Thank you for your responses,

Brooke

0 Chester Gillon over 9 years ago in reply to George Mock

Guru 92251 points

George Mock said:
CCS does not support building executables, DLL's, libraries, etc for execution on hosted systems like Windows, Linux, or Apple.

However, since CCS is built upon the Eclipse CDT, this thread develop a PC application with CCS suggests it is possible to use CCS to compile and debug a local executable.

[I haven't tried it myself]

0 ruijie yang over 9 years ago in reply to George Mock

Intellectual 480 points

Why so?

CCS can build .out(executables) and .lib(static libraries) on my winxp

thank you

0 George Mock over 9 years ago in reply to ruijie yang

TI__Guru**** 232900 points

This thread is about whether you can build a DLL for execution on a hosted system such as a Windows PC. CCS is built upon the Eclipse framework. There are other Eclipse based IDE's which do support building DLL's and executables for hosted systems. Thus it may be possible to use CCS to that end. That said, we do not support such capability.

Thanks and regards,

-George

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