Can't Find DLL entry point.

[HarrySuber]

I am trying to write a DLL for use in CA-Realizer. (CA-Realizer is a dialect of BASIC. It has an EXTERNAL statement similar to VB's Declare for accessing functions defined in DLLs). I get error message 453: Can't find DLL entry point for 'MyFunction' in 'MyDLL'. I used QuickView to look at the DLL so I could try using the "ordinal" for MYFunction as an Alias as suggested by Help, but ActiveX DLL's have no export table! What gives here? Every ActiveX DLL that I look at has no export table. Is this some Microsoft scheme to prevent non-Microsoft products that can't register ActiveX DLL's form using them? Or maybe I'm missing something very basic about DLLs. Help!!.



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[jonscott8]

Hi Harry,

FWIW, a 'Can not find entry point in dll' error is generally caused by the name of the function being incorrectly spelled. It is case-sensitive.

For Example, using the ShowWindow Function in Win32Api:

DECLARE ShowWindow blah,blah,blah

DECLARE SHOWWINDOW blah,blah,blah

The second declaration would be source of the error because the function named is not properly spelled. [sig]<p>Jon Hawkins<br><a href=mailto: jonscott8@yahoo.com> jonscott8@yahoo.com</a><br><a href= > </a><br>Focus on the solution....Not the problem.[/sig]