Create a solution using the DLL C++ DLL template. Rename pch.cpp to pch.c and dllmain.cpp to dllmain.c. Add a header file for the DLL containing the following macro:
#define DLL_Export __declspec(dllexport)
Mark all the exportable functions in the DLL header file with the DLL_Export macro. Suppose the DLL is named CSortingDLL. Next create a console C++ project in the DLL solution to use the DLL. Open the Properties page of the console app. If you want to use the ASCII character set, select the Advanced Configuration Properties, and set the Character Set to Not Set. Now open the C/C++ General Property and under Additional Include Directories add ..\CSortingDLL\;. Do not include the previous period mark. Next open the Linker General Property page. Set Additional Library Directories to ..\CSortingDLL\$(IntDir);. The penultimate step is to set the Linker Input Additional Dependencies to CSortingDLL.lib;. The final step for the app is to add a reference to CSortingDLL. Now you have a functioning DLL and an app using the DLL. If you have any questions, please contact me via email at jamespate@mac.com. Also, Microsoft has a DLL walkthrough complete with source code. I will add my CSortingDLL header source code as a PDF document.
Author: jamespatewilliamsjr
My whole legal name is James Pate Williams, Jr. I was born in LaGrange, Georgia approximately 70 years ago. I barely graduated from LaGrange High School with low marks in June 1971. Later in June 1979, I graduated from LaGrange College with a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry with a little over a 3 out 4 Grade Point Average (GPA). In the Spring Quarter of 1978, I taught myself how to program a Texas Instruments desktop programmable calculator and in the Summer Quarter of 1978 I taught myself Dayton BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) on LaGrange College's Data General Eclipse minicomputer. I took courses in BASIC in the Fall Quarter of 1978 and FORTRAN IV (Formula Translator IV) in the Winter Quarter of 1979. Professor Kenneth Cooper, a genius poly-scientist taught me a course in the Intel 8085 microprocessor architecture and assembly and machine language. We would hand assemble our programs and insert the resulting machine code into our crude wooden box computer which was designed and built by Professor Cooper. From 1990 to 1994 I earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from LaGrange College. I had a 4 out of 4 GPA in the period 1990 to 1994. I took courses in C, COBOL, and Pascal during my BS work. After graduating from LaGrange College a second time in May 1994, I taught myself C++. In December 1995, I started using the Internet and taught myself client-server programming. I created a website in 1997 which had C and C# implementations of algorithms from the "Handbook of Applied Cryptography" by Alfred J. Menezes, et. al., and some other cryptography and number theory textbooks and treatises.
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