Re: Creating DLL Entry Point

From:
"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Wed, 5 Sep 2007 16:58:46 -0400
Message-ID:
<OlanAAA8HHA.1444@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>
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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