Re: GetModuleHandle
On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 16:27:36 -0000, "David Webber"
<dave@musical.demon.co.uk> wrote:
In an attempt to get some diagnostics about which MFC installation is in use
by my application (some people have lots of them in WinSxS) I have been
trying
HINSTANCE hInstance = ::GetModuleHandle( _T("mfc80d.dll") );
The debug version of MFC isn't redistributable, so I have to wonder if you
meant to look for mfc80.dll.
if( hInstance )
{
TCHAR szPath[_MAX_PATH];
::GetModuleFileName( hInstance, szPath, _MAX_PATH );
::AfxMessageBox( szPath, MB_OK );
}
But GetModuleHandle is returning NULL.
If instead I try:
HINSTANCE hInstance = ::AfxLoadLibrary( _T("mfc80d.dll") );
if( hInstance )
{
TCHAR szPath[_MAX_PATH];
::GetModuleFileName( hInstance, szPath, _MAX_PATH );
::AfxMessageBox( szPath, MB_OK );
::AfxFreeLibrary( hInstance );
}
Then it works fine and I get *a* path to an MFC80D.DLL..
Any ideas
(a) why GetModuleHandle does not work
If it's your release mode version, it isn't working because it's using
mfc80.dll.
and more importantly
(b) whether the latter is always guaranteed to pick up the version of MFC
which my program has already loaded
No, it will happily load the DLL if necessary.
(c) if there's a better way. (eg does the MFC DLL have a global hInstance
which it stores?)
Not that I know of. What you've written should work fine; you just have to
ask for the right DLL.
--
Doug Harrison
Visual C++ MVP
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