Chapter 3
Developing Your Application
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Microsoft C/C++
The NI-DNET software supports Microsoft Visual C/C++ version 6.
The header file and library for Visual C/C++ 6 are in the
MS Visual C
folder of the
NI-DNET
folder. The typical path to this folder is
\Program
Files\National Instruments\NI-DNET\MS Visual C
. To use
NI-DNET, include the
nidnet.h
header file in your code, then link with
the
nidnetms.lib
library file.
For C applications (files with a
.c
extension), include the header file by
adding a
#include
to the beginning of your code, as in:
#include "nidnet.h"
For C++ applications (files with
.cpp
extension), define
_cplusplus
before including the header, such as:
#define _cplusplus
#include "nidnet.h"
The
_cplusplus
define enables the transition from C++ to the C language
NI-DNET functions.
The reference for each NI-DNET function is provided in the
NI-DNET
Programmer Reference Manual
, which you can open from
Start»All
Programs»National Instruments»NI-DNET
. You can find examples for
Visual C++ in the
examples
subfolder of the
MS Visual C
folder. Each
example is in a separate folder. A
.c
file with the same name as the
example contains a description the example in comments at the top of the
code. At the command prompt, after setting MSVC environment variables
(such as with MS
vcvars32.bat
), you can build each example using a
command such as:
cl –I.. singin.c ..\nidnetms.lib
Borland C/C++
The NI-DNET software supports Borland C/C++ version 5 or later.
The header file and library for Borland C/C++ are in the
Borland C
folder
of the
NI-DNET
folder. The typical path to this folder is
\Program
Files\National Instruments\NI-DNET\Borland C
.
To use NI-DNET, include the
nidnet.h
header file in your code, then link
with the
nidnetbo.lib
library file.
