Creating *.h from *.DLL files

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Chewy509

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Chewy509 13 Jul 2007, 02:53

Hi Guys,

This isn't really an assembly question, but is sort of related.

If I create a *.dll file using fasm, it's nice and easy to link to it using assembler. (Just define the name in the Import section).

However, if I want to link to the *.dll (which was originally written in fasm) using say VC++, VB.NET or Delphi, etc we need an appropriate header files for those HLL's and Compilers.

Does anyone know of a tool or tools that can create the template for a *.h file (for use with C/C++), and optionally the *.lib file (for linking), or the appropriate header files for other languages based on the export section within a compiled *.dll file WITHOUT the original source or *.OBJ file?

MSDN comes up with a few hints, but nothing concrete.

PS. I know that any tool won't know about the types and number of parameters passed, but as long as it and get the function name list, that'll be good enough, as I could just manually type in the parameters to be passed.

13 Jul 2007, 02:53

Yardman

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Yardman 13 Jul 2007, 07:56

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13 Jul 2007, 07:56

vid
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vid 13 Jul 2007, 09:45

Chewy: It's not possible to create .h file just from .dll. It would be problem even to do it from .asm sources. Problem is that in C, you need to know arguments of functions, and also their types.

Code:

int func1(char* x, int y);
int func2(char** x, int y);
int __stdcall func3();

So i would suggest to create that .h file yourself, i think you don't have that many exported functions in FASM dll to really need some tool.

13 Jul 2007, 09:45

Vortex

Joined: 17 Jun 2003
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Vortex 13 Jul 2007, 17:49

def2lib can create import libraries from module definition files :

http://vortex.masmcode.com/files/def2lib10.zip

http://board.flatassembler.net/topic.php?t=6422

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13 Jul 2007, 17:49

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