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GetProcAddress return type

#12078
From: Muzzy
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 06:10
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Hi,

I hope someone can help:

I have a dll which exports:

extern "C" __declspec(dllexport) bool VPNStart();

I also have an app, which wants to call the dll and get the address of 
"VPNStart":


typedef bool (HVPNSTART)(void);

bool VNCStart(void)
{
   HINSTANCE hLib = LoadLibrary("VPNCHK32.DLL");
   if (hLib == NULL) {
     MessageBox(0, "Unable to Load VPNCHK32.DLL", "Error", MB_OK);
     return false;
   }
   HVPNSTART* vs = (HVPNSTART*)GetProcAddress(hLib, "_VPNStart");
   if (vs == NULL) {
     MessageBox(0, "Failed calling VPNStart", "Error", MB_OK);
     FreeLibrary(hLib);
     return false;
   }
   MessageBox(0, "VPNStart Loaded!", "SUCCESS", MB_OK);

   FreeLibrary(hLib);
   return true;
}


It doesn't work - vs gets NULL value, although "_VPNStart" shows when i 
dump the DLL.
My only thought that i messed somewhere with typecasts in calling 
function, incorrectly defined HVPNSTART...


Any ideas?

Thank you,
Andrey
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