I have a native win32 dll which exports some ' native c 'functions.I want to Load this dll and access the exported methods of dll.I have created a JNI wrapper class.After creating the dll i have copied the dll to the libs folder of my android project.Now when i do the loadlibrary it throws Unsatisfied Link error.If i do the same with .so file genetared from NDK it works fine.How do i load the win32 dll?

Regards,
RAmana.

You can't use dll's on any other platform than Windows. So you should use .so-files if you want to share code between projects. And (correct me if I'm wrong), you have to compile the .so-files with the NDK, as they output ARM assembler instead of x86/x64 assembler that is produces by default in Visual Studio (I assume that you used MSVS for constructing the dll).

Hi mackyman,
Thanks for the reply.As Android is Linux based platform you mean to say that we cannot load dll's and only .so files can be loaded?Ok now i have a scenario where i want to use MessageBOx function of Win32 in Android.I wrote a small sample library(Win32 dll using VS2005) which exports a function ShowMessage() which contains the actual call to win32.So how do i build this so that i can use it in Android.Should i use ndk but how do i include the path to different header files and so.So basically what is the command to compile the vS project so that it can be used in Android.?

Warm Regards,
ramana.

AFAIK you can't. Read the previous post. This is a linux system, not windows.

Although check out the awesome work of this dude

EDIT: Windows-C and POSIX-C are different flavours of C and are not fully compatible. The binary that they compile to are completely different, since one is linux assembler and one Windows assembler.

Any and all please correct me if I'm wrong on this.

Hi,
So instead of creating a Win32 dll from visual studio i have to create a .so using ndk with my .c/.cpp/.h files and then use it in my Android app?What is the command to reference all windows headers,libs,includes to create a .so file?
Can some body give me a small sample which actually to use a MessageBox method of win32 API in Android.

Is it really possible to call a win32 method in Android?If not any other alternatives.

Warm Regards,
ramana.

So finally we cant load any windows dlls in Android.In case if u are using any you have to rewrite the functionality in c/c++ without using windows headers or equivalent java code and then proceed.

I have already worked on this problem and you have to rewrite the windows code and remove the header. I think the best solution is to use some #define, thus your code still work on windows but you can compile it on UNIX platform.

Just define a unix variable while creating your .so library, by adding in the Android.mk file :

LOCAL_CFLAGS := -D __CYGWIN__ #Where __CYGWIN__ is my define

And in your C code :

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#ifdef __CYGWIN__
...
#else
#include <windows.h>
#endif

Thank u all for the inputs