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Re: MLGetByteString

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg56554] Re: MLGetByteString
• From: "Jens-Peer Kuska" <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
• Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 03:19:52 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Uni Leipzig
• References: <d4q260$ok9$1@smc.vnet.net>
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Hi,

assuming, that you are useing the same header for 
Windows and
Linux, define MLPROTOTYPES under Linux.

Regards
  Jens

"OT" <montoz at invaliddomain.com> schrieb im 
Newsbeitrag news:d4q260$ok9$1 at smc.vnet.net...
>I found a little inconsistency in Mathematica 5.1 
>MathLink about the
> function MLGetByteString, since looking in the 
> Help Browser I found both
> these two different prototypes:
>
> int MLGetByteString( MLINK link, unsigned char 
> **s, long *n, long spec)
>
> int MLGetByteString( MLINK link, const unsigned 
> char** sp, long* n, long
> spec)
>
> Now, I wrote my C code assuming that the first 
> prototype was right, and
> the code works perfectly under Windows XP; 
> problems arise when I try to
> compile the same C code on a different computer 
> running Linux and
> Mathematica 5.0, since I get several warnings 
> when compiling.
> It seems that the right prototype for 
> MLGetByteString under Linux is the
> second one.
>
> Now, my question is: how can I wright a code 
> suitable for both the platform?
>
> It's not beautiful to see all these warnings...
>
> thanks in advance,
>
> andrea
>