Using Dll's

[mrnoone]

Hi, I'm new here and I have started making a game. I know that there is one way to make this use DLL's but how do I make it use them by default and not the .vm's? I searched for this and didn't find anything.

[Monk]

viewtopic.php?f=15&t=116

Last post there is about using DLLs instead of QVMs.

[mrnoone]

It's been a while but, Isn't there a way to either make it use dll's by default? I want qvm's off entirly instead of having to set them off in a cfg. Either that or how do I create QVMs?

[speaker]

It's been a while but, Isn't there a way to either make it use dll's by default? I want qvm's off entirly instead of having to set them off in a cfg. Either that or how do I create QVMs?

In the file 'vm.c' (folder 'qcommon') there is a function called 'VM_Create' that is responsible for loading a DLL or a QVM module. This is the code fragment for DLLs:

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  if (interpret == VMI_NATIVE)
  {
    // try to load as a system dll
    Com_Printf("Loading dll file %s.\n", vm->name);
    vm->dllHandle =
      Sys_LoadDll(module, vm->fqpath, &vm->entryPoint, VM_DllSyscall);
    if (vm->dllHandle)
    {
      return vm;
    }

    Com_Printf("Failed to load dll, looking for qvm.\n");
    interpret = VMI_COMPILED;
  }


if you change the 'if' (interpret == VM_NATIVE)' statement to 'if (1)', then the function will always try to load a DLL and abort with an error if none is available.

Hope this helps.

Speaker