Hey Flippo
I'm also trying to connect C# with gretl api. My P/Invoke signature is like so
[DllImportAttribute(Constants.gretlLibraryPath, EntryPoint = "gretl_read_native_data", CallingConvention = CallingConvention.Cdecl)]
public static extern int gretl_read_native_data(string fileName, ref Structures.DATASET dataset);
you have to mind that callingConversation must be Cdecl.
Besides you have to marshal DATASET, like so
// Call Gretl Api new dataset
IntPtr pointer = GretlCore.NativeGretl.Methods.datainfo_new();
// Marshal pointer to dataset
Structures.DATASET dataset = (Structures.DATASET)Marshal.PtrToStructure(pointer, typeof(Structures.DATASET));
You can also try to call directly IntPtr.
Hope this helps.
LP Simon
2011/12/30 Filippo Bonsignori
<filippo.bonsignori@logobject.ch>
Hello gretl users!
I'm trying to open a ".gdt" file calling gretl_read_native_data (system
info's: "gretl 1.9.6 - build date 2011-10-17" on "Windows 7 Ultimate -
Service Pack 1") from a C# class: the result is always an error code 12 (it
seems that something is wrong into the file path name ...).
Follows a significant excerpt of my code
[Start C# code]
...
IntPtr dset;
[DllImport(@"C:\Program Files (x86)\gretl\libgretl.dll")]
internal static extern void libgretl_init();
[DllImport(@"C:\Program Files (x86)\gretl\libgretl.dll")]
internal static extern IntPtr create_new_dataset(IntPtr pZ, int nvar, int
nobs, int markers);
[DllImport(@"C:\Program Files (x86)\gretl\libgretl.dll", CharSet =
CharSet.Unicode)]
internal static extern int gretl_read_native_data(string fname, IntPtr
pdset);
...
int err;
string fname = @"C:\Program Files (x86)\gretl\data\misc\australia.gdt";
libgretl_init();
dset = datainfo_new();
err = gretl_read_native_data(fname, dset);
...
[End C# code]
Where am I wrong?
Regards, Filippo.
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LP Simon