What Kind Of Additional Files I Need To Use Third Party Provided Dll ?

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I work on vc++ project where i need to call function included in a dll provided by a third part, i would like to avoid to use diassemble tool so what type of additional file i need to call the functions in c code ? thanks a lot for help.

Posted 27-Apr-15 14:35pm

Souheil Rejeb

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PIEBALDconsult 27-Apr-15 21:00pm

None.

Sascha Lefèvre 27-Apr-15 21:18pm

Preferably an API documentation.

sashje- 28-Apr-15 5:23am

a header file and a lib file would help you in your IDE. If you cannot obtain this, you need to find all exports by using "dumpbin /exports" ..
THen you find all the exported methods.. Thereafter you can load the dll using
LoadLibrary(), find the method using GetProcAddress.. and then invoking it.

Reference: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms686944%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

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webmaster442 · Answer 1 · 2015-04-28T02:45:00

A document on what public functions are provided by the dll file and a litle knowledge on P/Invoke. The MSDN has some neat tutorial on the topic: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa288468%28v=vs.71%29.aspx[^]

I should mention that if your DLL file is x86, then in the .NET project settings you will have to set the the platform target to x86.