Re: Creating DLL Entry Point
FFrozTT <tech@millennium.ab.ca> wrote:
I have a small project that works fine as an EXE. Now I want to make
it into a DLL. I've created a DllMain routine and set it as the
entry
point (code below). Then from DllMain I try to initialize my main
routine called ThreadProc. I've tryed this several different ways
and
can't get it to work. It compiles fine but when I go rundll32
mydll.dll nothing happenes (works in exe form.)
You pass incorrect parameters to rundll32. I suspect it fails before
even loading your DLL.
If you insist on using rundll32, see
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/164787
You need to implement and export a function with a particular signature,
and do all your work there. Creating a new thread is rather pointless -
rundll32 will unload the DLL and terminate as soon as your entry point
returns.
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