DllMain vs LibMain

[AndyHollywood]

The program I am trying to adapt was first writen using a dll with the entry point as LibMain, I am now trying to use DllMain, but don't really understand where the equivilant parts in both are?!

The old usd to be:
BOOL CALLBACK LibMain(HANDLE hModule, DWORD dwReason, LPVOID lpReserved)
{
hInstance = hModule;
return 1;
}

I want to use DllMain (for no particular reason I was just told it was the new standard!) but am unsure where to put the code so it will act the same?!

BOOL WINAPI DllMain(HINSTANCE hinstDLL,DWORD fdwReason, LPVOID lpReserved)
{
switch( fdwReason )
{
case DLL_PROCESS_ATTACH:
break;
case DLL_THREAD_ATTACH:
break;
case DLL_THREAD_DETACH:
break;
case DLL_PROCESS_DETACH:
break;
}

return TRUE;
}

would it go into process attach or thread attach? or should it be somewhere completly different?!

Also what are the benefits of dllmain over libmain?!

Cheers in advance

Andy

 

[DavesTips]

LibMain() is from 16 Bit Windows; you should use DllMain()under Win32. See the MSDN article Q125688 for porting Win16 DLLs to Win32.

Hope that this helped!