>I was wondering if anyone has been able to compile these poker-eval
>functions into a DLL. I really want to use them with Visual Basic.

The code has been compiled and tested with Visual C++, and could certainly
be compiled into a DLL. I think the biggest issue would be the calling
interface from VB to the DLL. The code uses C extensions for 64-bit
integers (used to store bit masks.) I don't know if VB can store 64-bit
integers, and even if it can, it may or may not be possible to call DLL
routines which use long integers in their interfaces. Finally, there are a
lot of C macros in the package which VB programmers would not be able to use.

I'm not sure if this is relevant, but we had a lot of trouble porting
the library routines to a Windoze platform last year, and I think it
was because everything was 32-bit. I believe we eventually went with
a slower evaluation method, because it wasn't worth the headache...

- Darse.