ProcedureDLL to work in exe files

Trond · Post by **Trond** » Mon Jun 01, 2009 1:13 pm

ProcedureDLL makes the procedure exported from the compiled file, but only if you compile a dll file. It would be nice if it worked with exe files as well.

srod · Post by **srod** » Mon Jun 01, 2009 1:51 pm

+1

Have often thought this would be nice. In fact I would use it right now if it was possible!

milan1612 · Post by **milan1612** » Mon Jun 01, 2009 1:52 pm

Why would one want to export a function in an executable? I don't see an actual use
of this, what am I overlooking?

Trond · Post by **Trond** » Mon Jun 01, 2009 3:09 pm

Google gtk_builder_connect_signals().

srod · Post by **srod** » Mon Jun 01, 2009 3:26 pm

milan1612 wrote:Why would one want to export a function in an executable? I don't see an actual use
of this, what am I overlooking?

I wish one of the programs I am currrently working on to run both as a separate executable or to be loaded as a dll and run 'in process'. This requires either a separate dll version of the program or the ability of the exe to export a function or two.

I know which option I would prefer!

I always found this a somewhat strange omission from PB given that most linkers can export functions from an exe.

MrMat · Post by **MrMat** » Mon Jun 01, 2009 3:37 pm

This has been requested before and used to be easy until 4.02 came out. Still gets my vote though

milan1612 · Post by **milan1612** » Mon Jun 01, 2009 5:17 pm

srod wrote:
milan1612 wrote:Why would one want to export a function in an executable? I don't see an actual use
of this, what am I overlooking?
I wish one of the programs I am currrently working on to run both as a separate executable or to be loaded as a dll and run 'in process'. This requires either a separate dll version of the program or the ability of the exe to export a function or two.

I know which option I would prefer!

I always found this a somewhat strange omission from PB given that most linkers can export functions from an exe.

Okay, I see. How'd you access such an exported function? With the regular Library functions?

srod · Post by **srod** » Mon Jun 01, 2009 5:24 pm

Exactly.

The API function LoadLibrary_() can load an exe into the calling process as well as a dll.

localmotion34 · Post by **localmotion34** » Mon Jun 01, 2009 6:10 pm

Yes, you can load exe files as a DLL. If you have ever diassembled an EXE before, you can see that there are export functions associated with it.

Delphi apps can do this, as well as other compilers too.

mback2k · Post by **mback2k** » Sun Jun 14, 2009 9:35 am

It would also be great to have a compiler switch which makes all functions compile as exported. This would would make runtime ASM based debugging easier, because you would have named function (symbols) instead.

cxAlex · Post by **cxAlex** » Sun Jul 26, 2009 2:40 pm

It's possible!

Specify a linker option file with this content:

Code: Select all

/ALLOWBIND

Greets, Alex