Custom dll bot loading problem

[The_Hard_Mission_Guy]

Allowa
I'm experimenting with whistler's version of the Hpb-bot for Ricochet called "Ricobot" and it seems that I'm facing a small but strange problem!

First when I add the rest of the cpp's and h's from botman's package and then compile it using MSVC++ 6 , everything goes as it should and I get a nice Dll.

but when I delete the default project files that come with Ricobot or Hpb_bot , start a new Dll project , add all the headers and sources and then compile the Dll(which is compiled successfully) I get an error message while loading the map in ricochet , saying something like can't load Dll Api

I tried everything but till now I can't find the error ( yes I checkd liblist.gam)
I suspect the mistake to be somewhere in the project files , but I can't locate the problem.......

remember the Dll compiles correctly without complaints , but it can't be loaded by the HL engine for some reason..

Help is urgently appreciated

[The Storm]

The Windows version of the HL engine like every version of VC++.
The problem probably come from the exporting of GiveFnptrsToDll i.e. from the file bot.def.
Better forget about that file and use the way that Jozef Wagner showed us.
Its better and less compicated.
Just add this code

// If we're using MSVC, we need to specify the export parameter (Thanks Jozef Wagner)...
#if _MSC_VER > 1000
#pragma comment(linker, "/EXPORT:GiveFnptrsToDll=_GiveFnptrsToDll@8,@1")
#pragma comment(linker, "/SECTION:.data,RW")
#endif

In h_export.cpp righ after the function DllMain.
Recompile and fun.

[The_Hard_Mission_Guy]

Yes exactly , the problem lies in GiveFnptrsToDll !
because that's the function that the HL engine complains about NOt being able to load it
by the way when I look at the function export list using dumpbin , I see GiveFnptrsToDll's name being changed to "GiveFnptrsToDll@8" ! Weird heh?

I'm right now making a new DLL project , in order to try this code out!!

[The_Hard_Mission_Guy]

It Works , that was a step into the right direction , thanks to this guy Jozef Wagner!
Unfortunately I haven't heard of him before , I guess he is a celebrity in the bot community like Botman , Who is He?

Now I can focus on the real coding job , in the meantime I've become a bad-ass ricochet decapitator !
After easing it a little bit by removing the BotShootatEnemy() function , LOL
I wonder if I can snatch 2 bots in one Hit......

[The Storm]

Here Jozef Wagner is known as Korax. Now maybe you can remember who is he.

[The_Hard_Mission_Guy]

Korax , Korax .......no that name doesn't ring any bells , sorry
wait .....in wikipedia Korax is documented as the final boss of the fps game Hexen...
but that's really everything this name says to me..

but I'm sure your gonna tell me more , right?

[The Storm]

Use the forum search.

[The_Hard_Mission_Guy]

OK I got a little bit smarter about this guy KoraX!
I see he has a broad programming profile , nice indeed!
I think we share some similarities ragarding the AI stuff ( Neural Networks & Gennetic Algorithms)
But I didn't actually "remember" him , I just learned about him a couple minutes ago , can't recgonize meeting him somewhere before..

[The Storm]

Well I think that you are registered here not from long(at last you say so).

[The_Hard_Mission_Guy]

you probably thought that I have been for a longer time here , but I've been here for the first time in May 2006 .