Program Entry Point in Win32 DLL

[ExciteMouse]

How do you access the `program entry point` to a DLL ?

i thought:
BOOL APIENTRY DllMain(HANDLE hModule, DWORD ul_reason_for_call, LPVOID lpReserved);

was it, but its not, thats just the start of the code. the "pep" is something else.

can anyone explain?

[parksie]

It's something like _DllMainCRTStartup I think you can just supply a new one and the linker will take that rather than the predefined one.

[ExciteMouse]

woah.. thats odd that you brought that call up, cause another project i am working on gives me this error when i link:


Linking...
Microsoft (R) Incremental Linker Version 5.12.8181
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1992-1998. All rights reserved.

Creating library DskTopHk1.lib and object DskTopHk1.exp
LINK : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __DllMainCRTStartup@12
DskTopHk1.dll : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals

Link Finished - 2 error(s), 0 warning(s)

[parksie]

Just seen your sig...you must be crusin' for a bruisin' showing that around

As for your link error...never had a problem with that before

[ExciteMouse]

haha, yes, i get more crap for that. Oh well. All the apps i work on at my job were created with MFC by other people, not my fault

anyways, this isnt a problem with Visual C++, its a problem with a Masm project. but its all the same linker tools and whatnot.
imma keep tryin!

thanks

[parksie]

Ah. The reason it's a problem with MASM is that you must implement that yourself, the CRT normally has it instead.