Chapter 3 Developing YourApplication
© National Instruments Corporation 3-3 NI-DNET User Manual
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.