.DLL docs needed

[McBugzz]

Does anybody know a good doc/tutorial on .dlls? pdfs, htmls, anything to get started.

Thanx

 

[palbano]

What about DLL’s? How to basically make one in C++? There are several sample projects for Visual C++ that are DLL projects. The Visual Studio Project Wizard for DLL type projects builds all sorts of sample code for you to jump start your DLL project. Or did I misunderstand the question entirely?

-pete

 

[McBugzz]

I have never used .dll's before. So I want to know everything, how to build, how the work, where applicable, what benefits they provide etc.

 

[Cagliostro]

you willuse the same header for dll, in dll implementation an in dllusilng. After you compile a dll. will result two files, a .dll and a .lib . When you want to use somethere the dll, link your project with that lib and use the same header for dllapi declaration.

///////yourdll.h
#if !defined(__YOUR_DLL_H)
#define __YOUR_DLL_H
#if !defined(__YOUR_DLL_IMPL_H)
# define dllapi __declspec(dllexport)
# else
# define dllapi __declspec(dllimport)
#endif
dllapi int xxx();//function declaration
class dllapi yyy //class declaration
{

};
#endif
////////yourdll.cpp
#define __YOUR_DLL_IMPL_H
#include "yourdll.h"
int xxx()
{
return 0;
}

/////yourdllusing.cpp
#include "yourdll.h"

....
xxx();
...

Ion Filipski

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[PerFnurt]

A crash course on the subject:

A dll is an executeable just like an .exe except it cannt not run as as a stand-alone application (like exe) but only as part of another application.

By the way, I got 431 hits when serching

http://www.google.com

on "what is a dll"

/Per

_{if (typos) cout << &quot;My fingers are faster than my brain. Sorry for the typos.&quot;;}