Need help importing a function from a DLL!

Can anyone help me with this problem? Basically, I'm trying to call the function 'MessageBoxA' without including windows.h (and by rather linking to 'libuser32.a'). Can this be done? Thanks in advance.

The following gives me an error ([Linker error] undefined reference to 'MessageBoxA'):

Code:

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extern "C" int MessageBoxA(int hWnd,const char* lpText,const char* lpCaption,unsigned int uType);

int main()
{
    MessageBoxA(0,"Test","Test",0);
    return 0;
}

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Note: I am using MinGW as my compiler.

#pragma comment(lib, "libuser32.a")

that might work

Thanks skorman00:

Unfortunately, however, there is still the same error :(

Could it be an issue of how I compile it? I have tried it both under Dev-C++ (I included the library under 'Project Options'->'Linker') and under Command Prompt (gcc -Os -s Debug.cpp -luser32).

I've never had to extern a function, I was think that it would run fine if you put the #pragma statement and got rid of the extern statement.

I tried removing

Code:

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extern "C" int MessageBoxA(long hWnd,const char* lpText,const char* lpCaption,unsigned int uType);

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and am now receiving the following errors:

[Warning] In function `int main()':
`MessageBoxA' undeclared (first use this function)

Any other suggestions?

Thanks again!

Debug.cpp ->

Code:

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#pragma comment(lib, "libuser32.a")

//extern "C" int MessageBoxA(long hWnd,const char* lpText,const char* lpCaption,unsigned int uType);

int main()
{
    MessageBoxA(0,"Test","Test",0);
    return 0;
}

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Code:

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extern "C" int __stdcall MessageBoxA(void * hWnd, const char * lpText, const char * lpCaption, unsigned int uType);

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Why is it not found without the __stdcall:

Quote:

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Name-decoration convention:
An underscore (_) is prefixed to the name. The name is followed by the at sign (@) followed by the number of bytes (in decimal) in the argument list. Therefore, the function declared as int func( int a, double b ) is decorated as follows: _func@12
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...___stdcall.asp

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Maybe.

Thank you so much anonytmouse! It finally works :p