Windows System Programming Third Edition

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CHAPTER 5 MEMORY MANAGEMENT, MEMORY-MAPPED FILES, AND DLLS

Building the DLLs

This program was tested with the two file conversion functions, which must be

built as DLLs with different names but identical entry points. There is only one

entry point in this case. The only significant change in the source code is the

addition of a storage modifier,

, to export the function.

The DLL Entry Point

Optionally, you ca n specify an entry point for every DLL you create, and this entry

point is normally invoked automatically every time a process attaches or detaches

the DLL.

, however, allows you to prevent entry point execution.

For implicitly linked (load ...