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Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 03:14:43 -0400
From: Vadim Berezniker <vadim AT berezniker DOT com>
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Subject: Re: DLLs and LoadLibrary
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Jani tiainen wrote:

> Vadim Berezniker wrote:
>
>> I followed the FAQ and the various mailing list messages and was able 
>> to build a dll that I can load with LoadLibrary.
>> The code inside the DLL makes calls to code in other libraries and 
>> for the most part this is okay.
>> When I make calls to one library, everything is OK. As soon as I 
>> uncomment one line which is simply a call to a function in another 
>> library, the resulting DLL cannot be loaded with LoadLibrary.
>
>
> There is various reasons why loading fails. If you get NULL from 
> LoadLibrary call, use GetLastError to retrieve real reason for error.
>
> BTW, where are you calling those LoadLibrary calls? It's unsafe (and 
> not really recommended) to call them in DllMain.
>
LoadLibrary never returns. An exception occurs within LoadLibrary. 
However if I comment that one line, it loads the library just fine.
I'm not calling LoadLibrary from a DLL.

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