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Resolved PBNI - SDK & watcom 1.9 or visual studio 2017

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  1. Nathalie Meurant
    Nathalie Meurant
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  3. Thursday, 8 August 2019 23:05 PM UTC

Hi, 

I have a PB 12.0 application that needs to be migrated to PB2017.
This application has a non-visual object that calls functions of a DLL.
This DLL was built in C ++ with the watcom compiler version 1.0.
I would like to recompile this DLL so that it can be used under win10.

the problem is that I do not think there are SDKs for the watcom.

the problem is that i do not think there are SDKs for the watcom for the current version.
therefore, I tried to recompile everything with visual studio 2017.
Unfortunately, there is no SDK for visual studio 2017.
Can you, please, help me?
Best regards
Nathalie Meurant
 
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Nathalie Meurant
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  1. Friday, 9 August 2019 09:35 AM UTC
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For VS 2017 and new projet

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Roland Smith
  1. Roland Smith
  2. Friday, 9 August 2019 10:37 AM UTC
PBNI is a DLL project. Having the file extension be PBX is not technically required, you can leave it as DLL if you want.

There used to be a Visual Studio add-in to make creating a new PBNI project easier but you don't really need it.

All you have to do is create a standard DLL project, copy the PBNI folder into your project folder and make the following project property changes:

C/C++ Additional Include Directories: .\PBNI\include

Linker Additional Library Directories: .PBNI\lib

If you want you can skip copying the PBNI folder and set the properties to the full path, I prefer to keep it all together. Also, you don't have to use Unicode, the PBNI interface handles the conversion of strings automatically.
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Nathalie Meurant
  1. Nathalie Meurant
  2. Friday, 9 August 2019 12:48 PM UTC
it's possible to generate C++ code by powerbuilder?
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Armeen Mazda @Appeon
  1. Armeen Mazda @Appeon
  2. Friday, 9 August 2019 16:17 PM UTC
No, PowerBuilder only supports editing/compiling PowerScript and C#.
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Chris Pollach @Appeon
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  1. Thursday, 8 August 2019 23:24 PM UTC
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Hi Nathalie;

  The Watcom C++ was open sourced. You can download the latest version from here

HTH

Regards ... Chris

 

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Nathalie Meurant
  1. Nathalie Meurant
  2. Friday, 9 August 2019 09:32 AM UTC
Hi Chris,

I have already installed the latest version of watcom.

My problem is that I do not know how to generate a DLL so that it can be integrated in PowerBuilder 2017?

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Chris Pollach @Appeon
  1. Chris Pollach @Appeon
  2. Friday, 9 August 2019 13:00 PM UTC
HTH: https://www.rgagnon.com/pbdetails/pb-0123.html

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Roland Smith
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  1. Thursday, 8 August 2019 23:15 PM UTC
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There is an SDK that works in Visual Studio 2017:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Appeon\PowerBuilder 17.0\SDK\PBNI

On this page you can download a VS 2017 PBNI project that you can use as an example:

http://www.topwizprogramming.com/pbnismtp.html

 

I have found that PBNI objects are not PB version specific. They automatically work with the version of the PB app that uses it.

 

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Nathalie Meurant
  1. Nathalie Meurant
  2. Friday, 9 August 2019 09:34 AM UTC
Hi Roland,

Thanks you for you exemple.

My problem is that i can't create a new project with the format PBNI.

Look at the images I have attached.

Best regard
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