Sheerpower can call procedures written in other programming languages as long as they are contained in a DLL as a global routine. An example of this is calling routines in the Microsoft provided msvcrt.dll library. The call statement is used to call and execute library routines. These routines can perform procedures so the developer does not have to write the code from scratch.
The library to which the routine belongs must have been specified in a library statement.

Routines within a DLL are called using the call statement, followed by a quoted string which contains the name of the routine to be called:
Some routines take arguments. By default, most arguments are passed by their value. Strings and arrays are always passed by reference. If you want to explicitly pass an argument by reference (the pointer to the argument), use the by ref option:

When a routine is called, it may also return a value. The variable _integer will hold this value if the routine returns an integer. If the routine returns a pointer to a null-terminated character string (char*), you can call the routine with the prefix char*. After the routine completes, _string will contain a copy of the returned string.

For example:

This demonstrates how _string automatically holds the returned string when the routine is called with the char* prefix.

The examples below uses the Microsoft provided msvcrt.dll library and calls the strlen and _getcwd functions/routines.