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Re: Access to a global variable in a dll

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From: Alan Bellingham
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 16:47
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"sam" <skneife3@wanadoo.fr> wrote:

>My goal is to access a global variable inside a Dll with the same value from
>2 different executables.

[snip]

>In fact the contains of g_IntegerData is not shared between the 2
>executables.

Correct. Each process gets its own copy of the DLL and all its data.
This was different under 16-bit Windows, BTW.

>So what is the way for sharing data between processes ?

You need to use shared memory - look in the Windows API help files under
Shared Memory.

Alan Bellingham
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