Does anyone have a good example that shows how to create a DLL using
cygwin/gcc and call it using VB .NET? I am specifically interested in an
example that shows how to pass a String variable. In the example that I
show below, I am able to call a C function. I can successfully pass a long
integer. But the string that I pass shows garbage in the called function.
My dll code looks like...
(test.c)
#include <stdio.h>
#include <wtypes.h>
define EXPORT __declspec(dllexport)
EXPORT int myTest(char *s1, long i1) {
printf("Here is the string %s, here is the integer %ld.\n",s1, i1);
}
I then compile as follows:
$ gcc -c test.c
$ gcc -shared -o test.dll test.o
(I have also tried several combinations of linking and compiling with
different options).
In my Visual Basic .NET console application, I create a class that wraps the
"myTest" function and then call it from main as follows:
Public Class LibWrap
Declare Function myTest Lib
"c:\cygwin\home\Administrator\test_dll\test.dll" (ByRef s1 As String, ByVal
i1 As Long) As Integer
End Class
Module Module1
Sub Main()
Dim test As String
test = "My String"
LibWrap.myTest(test, 6432)
LibWrap.myTest(test, 20)
LibWrap.myTest(test, 3000)
End Sub
End Module
I also modified the "path" environment variable so vb finds the class path
to cygwin.
As I mentioned, I am able to pass integers successfully, but strings don't
seem to get marshaled to (char *). I recognize that the .NET String
implementation is different, but thought the .NET marshaling would take care
of conversion. A simple working example would be extremely helpful.
Thanks
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