Redistributing DataStage Development Kit Applications

SPA_BI · Post by **SPA_BI** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 5:11 pm

Hi, in the document it says:

If you want to run the application from a computer used as a
DataStage client, you should redistribute the following library with
your application:
vmdsapi.dll

This file refers to the 'C:\Program Files\Ascential\DataStage7.5.1\vmdsapiENU.dll" right?

Also, we run server on Unix and clients on windows.

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 6:04 pm

Not necessarily. For example it might be vmdsapiJPN.dll if you're redistributing in Japan.

SPA_BI · Post by **SPA_BI** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 6:55 pm

Hi,

If I redistribute in English speaking countries, vmdsapiENU.dll will do, right?

Also, do I just need to place the dlls (DSCLNT32.DLL, dsrpc32.dll and vmdsapi.dll) in the same directory as the compiled executable? I suspect I'm not putting them in the right place as I'm getting the following linking error:

1>DataStageLib.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "extern "C" int __cdecl DSGetLastError(void)" (?DSGetLastError@@$$J0YAHXZ)
1>\\rchfil100\users$\kevxu\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\DataStage Lib\Debug\DataStageLib.dll : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals

I'm using Visual Studio C++ Express.

SPA_BI · Post by **SPA_BI** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 5:13 pm

Hi,
Anyone one else ever came across this link error before?

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 9:30 pm

No, never had a need to play this game.

I'd suspect, based on your 'unresolved externals' error, that it's not about putting them in the right place, but about having the right runtime libraries.

SPA_BI · Post by **SPA_BI** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 5:04 pm

I thought those datastage api functions are supposed to be DLL imported so the compiler shouldn't be trying to link those functions.

Did anyone get this to work, ever?