ODBC call failure in SDL

[joecurtis]

The statement 'sys "LoadLibrary", "ODBC32.DLL" ¸to odbc%' works with BB4W but with BBCSDL2.0 gives me a ' No such system call' error.
Can anyone suggest a reason?

[RichardRussell]

The statement 'sys "LoadLibrary", "ODBC32.DLL" ¸to odbc%' works with BB4W but with BBCSDL2.0 gives me a ' No such system call' error.

I do not recommend trying to call Windows API functions from BBCSDL (remember that SDL2 is acting as an 'OS abstraction layer' and is partially isolating your program from Windows). However you may find it works by using LoadLibraryA:

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      SYS "LoadLibraryA", "ODBC32.DLL" TO odbc%

Really you should be calling the equivalent SDL2 function instead:

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      SYS "SDL_LoadObject", "C:\Windows\SysWOW64\odbc32.dll" TO odbc%

But you would then need to be consistent and use only SDL functions throughout.