[TRNSYS-users] Error calling a type

[David BRADLEY]

Amaia,

   This kind of problem is pretty impossible to diagnose without working 
with the code and the Visual Fortran project.

   A couple thoughts occur to me though. First, I notice in your email 
you mentioned the line:

DEC$Attributes DLLEXPORT :: TYPE 154

perhaps it is just an artifact of the email but in the code there should 
not be a space between TYPE and 154.

Second, try putting break points into your code and running your 
simulation from the Intel Visual Studio project instead of from the 
Simulation Studio. This will allow you to stop on lines and step one 
line of code at a time. You can put breakpoints into the UserLib.f90 
subroutine; that is where the Type loading from DLLs occurs.

Third, if for some reason you can't debug the code using breakpoints 
then if your Type is loading other subroutines or precompiled libraries 
and fail to do so or get some kind of unhandled error inside them then 
you'll get the "failed to load" error from TRNSYS. The way I would try 
to diagnose this problem is to temporarily get rid of the call to the 
subroutine and put in some fake lines of code that set the values that 
you would normally get back from the subroutine. If you get rid of all 
these subroutine calls and the "failed to load" problem goes away then 
you know that there is a problem with loading those additional subroutines.
kind regards,
  David


On 10/14/2018 16:09, Amaia Zuazua Ros via TRNSYS-users wrote:
>
> Hi TRNsys users,
>
> I had compiled my own type (kind of unglazed solar collector) using 
> Visual Studio (I use TRNsys 17). I did it months ago and it worked 
> perfectly, it was an steady state calculation so I have tried to 
> include a thermal inertia component using setStorageSize, 
> setStorageVar, getStorageVars and SolveDiffEq. I was compiling and 
> simulating while I was making the modifications but suddenly 
> Simulation Studio stopped reading the type, I got the error "A type 
> was called in the TRNsys input file but was either not linked into 
> trndll.dll or was not found in an external dll. A dummy subroutine was 
> called in its place. Please link the type or remove it from the input 
> file".
> The debug and release .dll are in the corresponding files, I checked 
> the name of the subroutine (Type 154 in this case) and the 
> DEC$Attributes DLLEXPORT :: TYPE 154 and the names are correct... I 
> don't know what else could have happened, maybe the subroutines that 
> I'm calling don't correspond to my version?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Regards,
>
> Amaia
>
>
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