Does anyone know what I am doing wrong here? I am trying to compress a small string, here is the compression part... ... ustr1 db "Example Input String",0 ... LOCAL src:DWORD ;source buffer LOCAL sln:DWORD ;source size LOCAL dest:DWORD ;dest buffer LOCAL dln:DWORD ;dest size ... mov eax,ustr1 mov src,eax ... invoke compress,dest,SIZEOF dln,src,SIZEOF sln ... I get a invalid page fault error, the zlib dll works fine...
Posted on 2000-11-15 20:02:00 by Plur
I think that your compress statement should be invoke compress,dest,SIZEOF dest,src,SIZEOF src SIZEOF returns the size of the variable. In this case a DWORD, if you are storing the size of dest in the variable dln then just pass dln.....like invoke compress,dest,dln,src,sln It looks to me like you are telling the compress function that the size of your string is a DWORD. The only other thing that I can suggest is to make sure that you are passing in exactly what the function thinks it getting..... I may be way off in my assessment as I have not use zlib before but it is something to think about. HTH
Posted on 2000-11-15 20:52:00 by Raeldin
The following is what it would look like in visual basic... Public Function CompressString(TheString As String) As Long OriginalSize = Len(TheString) 'Allocate string space for the buffers Dim CmpSize As Long Dim TBuff As String orgSize = Len(TheString) TBuff = String(orgSize + (orgSize * 0.01) + 12, 0) CmpSize = Len(TBuff) 'Compress string (temporary string buffer) data ret = compress(ByVal TBuff, CmpSize, ByVal TheString, Len(TheString)) 'Set original value OriginalSize = Len(TheString) 'Crop the string and set it to the actual string. TheString = Left$(TBuff, CmpSize) 'Set compressed size of string. CompressedSize = CmpSize 'Cleanup TBuff = "" 'Return error code (if any) CompressString = ret End Function I'm not sure how asm buffers work, that is probaly what is wrong?
Posted on 2000-11-15 22:07:00 by Plur
The zlib prototype (in C) is ZEXTERN int ZEXPORT compress OF((Bytef *dest, uLongf *destLen, const Bytef *source, uLong sourceLen)); So you should code something like: ustr1 byte "Example Input String",0 local dest:dword ; -> Destination buffer local dln:dword ; Destination buffer size invoke compress, dest, addr dln, addr ustr1, sizeof ustr1 That's it.
Posted on 2000-11-16 01:21:00 by zaphod
This is what you posted: ustr1 db "Example Input String",0 ... LOCAL src:DWORD ;source buffer LOCAL sln:DWORD ;source size LOCAL dest:DWORD ;dest buffer LOCAL dln:DWORD ;dest size ... mov eax,ustr1 mov src,eax ... invoke compress,dest,SIZEOF dln,src,SIZEOF sln ... everything is fine but change the: mov eax,ustr1 to mov eax,offset ustr1
Posted on 2001-03-02 08:18:00 by Zcoder
If I remember correctly, zlib wants the last parameter to be a pointer to a dword - so it can store the actual output length. This gave me quite some queer errors back when I was using zlib to compress/decompress my fancy new executable format for a 32bit dos project. It took a long time to sort out the problem. I was calling zlib from assembly, and thus I had it's proto as all dwords. "destlen", not "pdestlen", so you couldn't tell from the name it wanted a pointer. I had almost given up, when I looked at the C definition, and saw that little start telling me that I should bang my head into the wall a couple times.
Posted on 2001-03-02 08:39:00 by f0dder
I think I should just give you a small snipet from my Pack Rat program that zips files. hMem1$ dd ? ;address of memroy block Dest. hMem2$ dd ? ;address of memory block Source dBuffSize dd ? ;DWORD of Dest size. sBuffSize dd ? ;DWORD of Source Size. invoke compress2,hMem1$,addr dBuffSize,hMem2$,sBuffSize,9 Notice that the first three Params are all address pointers this must be how you invoke this call into the zlib DLL. The last Param tells how much to compress the data that value can only be from 0-9 zero meaning no compress, while 9 equ Max. I hope this clears up how to use zlib..
Posted on 2001-03-05 00:47:00 by Zcoder
i want to work with zlib.dll but i'm unable to import function like compress2 or uncompress. I've: LNK2001 : unresolved external symbol _compress2@20 I've make this in my source file: include zlibdll.inc includelib zlibstat.lib includelib zlibdll.lib and this in zlibdll.inc (new file): compress2 PROTO :DWORD, :DWORD, :DWORD, :DWORD, :DWORD how to include zlib in order to INVOKE compress2 and uncompress? thank you
Posted on 2001-03-13 08:17:00 by gael
I don't know what zlib you are using but what I am working with only has zlib.lib and zlib.inc and it works great I use compress2 it really works easy. maybe you should tell me if you want the vertsion I am working with. cuz I have this one woking and there is only one lib and inc file to make the DLL work.
Posted on 2001-03-13 10:25:00 by Zcoder
I've email you. thanx!:)
Posted on 2001-03-13 13:42:00 by gael
I have sent you my whole project with all the files this project is not done, but it does zip all files from a folder into a zip file. the compression is zip compadible but the archive is not zip compadible, I am still reading about the zip archive layout..
Posted on 2001-03-14 14:06:00 by Zcoder