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OK, so here's a question: I think I understand how to load a DLL and
call the functions it exports, but... how do you find out what functions
a DLL exports?
I mean, one way would be to find some documentation. But if you don't
have any... is there some way to inspect the symbol list somehow? Can
you get an argument list? How about type information?
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> OK, so here's a question: I think I understand how to load a DLL and call
> the functions it exports, but... how do you find out what functions a DLL
> exports?
Google "list dll functions"? First result is this:
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/dll_export_viewer.html
> Can you get an argument list? How about type information?
No. No.
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>> OK, so here's a question: I think I understand how to load a DLL and
>> call the functions it exports, but... how do you find out what
>> functions a DLL exports?
>
> Google "list dll functions"? First result is this:
> http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/dll_export_viewer.html
Well, it seems to work anyway...
>> Can you get an argument list? How about type information?
>
> No. No.
I had a feeling that would be the case. The symbols have to be in the
DLL so you can look them up, but nothing else is required...
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C:\WINDOWS\system32\Audio3D.dll
0x100018F0 (0x02) DllGetObjectClass
0x10001A10 (0x03) DllCanUnloadNow
0x10001370 (0x04) _A3d@Create@12
Fascinating stuff, eh?
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Invisible a écrit :
> OK, so here's a question: I think I understand how to load a DLL and
> call the functions it exports, but... how do you find out what functions
> a DLL exports?
>
> I mean, one way would be to find some documentation. But if you don't
> have any... is there some way to inspect the symbol list somehow? Can
> you get an argument list? How about type information?
Worse, How do you find which DLL are needed by a DLL ?
There is a "dependancy walker" (from steve P. Miller) but that might
not provide the argument list.
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Along with a DLL inspector, I find a tool which lists every registered
COM object in the system.
OK, do you have ANY FRIGGIN IDEA how many COM objects are registered on
my PC?! Not counting the DLLs registered for that program I already
uninstalled. Acrobat Reader alone registers about 12 classes. o_O
God only knows what MS Office registers...
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Invisible wrote:
> God only knows what MS Office registers...
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Visual Database
Tools\DVT70.DLL
This single DLL registers exactly 50 ClassIDs. For example:
{03CB9467-FD9D-42A8-82F9-8615B4223E6E} Microsoft Visual Database Tools
Database Designer V7.0 MSVDTDatabaseDesigner7
{133E2230-74AF-4A79-8226-7AA2EBC018DA} DBNamespace Class
DBNamespace.DBNamespace.7
{1912B299-D07C-45DF-99DF-139D7F6FC4E8} Primer Class Primer.Primer.7
{1AECB7EC-4CFB-4866-8E08-8D6961E5C095} PrimerMgr Class PrimerMgr.PrimerMgr.7
{2C10A98F-D64F-43B4-BED6-DD0E1BF2074C} Microsoft Visual Database Tools
Query Designer V7.0 MSVDTQueryDesigner7
{31E4841B-9B7A-4EF2-8A83-8F1F70D7B0D7} Microsoft Visual Database Tools
Query Designer V7.0 Data property page
{3AABDBBA-9C39-400C-BA5A-0186866F8D25} Microsoft Visual Database Tools
Query Designer V7.0 Join Line property page
{43872FA3-D283-4CCD-9FC9-281AB33F5D01} Microsoft Visual Database Tools
Query Designer V7.0 Procedure Designer property page
I could go on... and that's just one DLL.
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Invisible wrote:
> This single DLL registers exactly 50 ClassIDs.
Topped that.
C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_11\bin\ssv.dll
This DLL registers *one hundred and three* ClassIDs:
{CAFEEFAC-0013-0000-0003-ABCDEFFEDCBA} Java Plug-in 1.3.0_03
{CAFEEFAC-0013-0000-0004-ABCDEFFEDCBA} Java Plug-in 1.3.0_04
{CAFEEFAC-0013-0000-0005-ABCDEFFEDCBA} Java Plug-in 1.3.0_05
{CAFEEFAC-0013-0001-0000-ABCDEFFEDCBA} Java Plug-in 1.3.1
{CAFEEFAC-0013-0001-0001-ABCDEFFEDCBA} Java Plug-in 1.3.1_01
...see a pattern yet?
Yep, there's a COM registration for every point-releast from 1.3.0_03 up
to 1.5.0_11. Which is pretty crazy, no?
Next time you install some program and it says "registering components"
or "writing registry keys", this is what it's doing. It's registering
millions of COM ClassIDs!
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C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\mpvis.dll
Exports the following functions:
0x4B0D7EA0 (0x01) DllCanUnloadNow
0x4B0D8A71 (0x02) DllGetClassObject
0x4B0D8A28 (0x03) DllMain
0x4B0D93C0 (0x04) DllRegisterServer
0x4B0D93D4 (0x05) DllUnregisterServer
Also the COM methods:
(0xC9) IToleranceVis::GetProperty
(0xCA) IToleranceVis::SetProperty
and the COM property:
(0xC8) IToleranceVis::foregroundColor
What this means, I have no idea...
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Now this is really quite interesting.
I found a DLL called autodisk.dll which exports half a dozen functions
and hundreds of COM methods and properties. I found several other DLLs
which apparently export... absolutely nothing. (Why do they exist then?)
Some DLLs for highly complex tasks appear to export a tiny amount of
stuff, so clearly there's something I'm not seeing. And then there are
huge, huge numbers of DLLs on the system which aren't registered anywhere.
And who says that staring into a screen full of code numbers is a good
way to learn stuff? ;-)
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Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
> OK, so here's a question: I think I understand how to load a DLL and
> call the functions it exports, but... how do you find out what functions
> a DLL exports?
That's what headers are for.
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>> OK, so here's a question: I think I understand how to load a DLL and
>> call the functions it exports, but... how do you find out what functions
>> a DLL exports?
>
> That's what headers are for.
Or documentation, for that matter.
OTOH, if you don't have either of these...
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On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:11:47 +0200, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> I found several other DLLs which apparently export... absolutely
> nothing. (Why do they exist then?)
A DLL need not export its functions by name.
> Some DLLs for highly complex tasks appear to export a tiny amount of
> stuff, so clearly there's something I'm not seeing.
A COM-based DLL need only expose a single function, one that returns a COM
interface pointer. The complex stuff is then reached through that
interface.
> And then there are huge, huge numbers of DLLs on the system which aren't
> registered anywhere.
Not all DLLs are COM servers.
> And who says that staring into a screen full of code numbers is a good
> way to learn stuff? ;-)
I don’t even see the code anymore; all I see now is blonde, brunette,
redhead...
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>> I found several other DLLs which apparently export... absolutely
>> nothing. (Why do they exist then?)
>
> A DLL need not export its functions by name.
But wouldn't that mean that there's no way to reach its functions?
(Unless you happen to know the exact base address - which will change in
the next version of the DLL...)
>> Some DLLs for highly complex tasks appear to export a tiny amount of
>> stuff, so clearly there's something I'm not seeing.
>
> A COM-based DLL need only expose a single function, one that returns a
> COM interface pointer. The complex stuff is then reached through that
> interface.
I was under the (mistaken?) impression that COM methods are exported as
DLL functions, and the COM system runs on top of the underlying DLL
infrastructure.
> Not all DLLs are COM servers.
Indeed.
And even the ones that are don't actually need to be registered; just
the ones that lots of people might want to find by ClassID. You can
access a COM server by its file path instead...
> I don’t even see the code anymore; all I see now is blonde, brunette,
> redhead...
WIN!
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On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:09:14 +0200, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> A DLL need not export its functions by name.
>
> But wouldn't that mean that there's no way to reach its functions?
> (Unless you happen to know the exact base address - which will change in
> the next version of the DLL...)
You can export functions by ordinal (i.e. number).
> I was under the (mistaken?) impression that COM methods are exported as
> DLL functions, and the COM system runs on top of the underlying DLL
> infrastructure.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms694363(VS.85).aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682305(VS.85).aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms686615(VS.85).aspx
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>>> A DLL need not export its functions by name.
>>
>> But wouldn't that mean that there's no way to reach its functions?
>> (Unless you happen to know the exact base address - which will change
>> in the next version of the DLL...)
>
> You can export functions by ordinal (i.e. number).
And, indeed, a few DLLs show unamed functions exported (i.e., a number,
but no name).
But some DLLs appear to export *nothing*. Not even unamed functions. I
suppose they could contain "resouces", but...
>> I was under the (mistaken?) impression that COM methods are exported
>> as DLL functions, and the COM system runs on top of the underlying DLL
>> infrastructure.
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms694363(VS.85).aspx
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682305(VS.85).aspx
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms686615(VS.85).aspx
That explains what some of the function calls are, but still doesn't
really say how it *works* internally.
Still, I guess you don't really need to know. I'm just curious about
such things.
More puzzling: CoGetClassObject() allows you to get hold of any class by
its ClassID. CoCreateInstance() creates any object given a ClassID and
an InterfaceID. This gives you a pointer to the object's interface. But
I cannot find any way of actually calling methods. If you have a DLL,
you can do GetProcAddress() to look up a function and call it. But if
you have an interface pointer, there doesn't seem to be any way to call
methods of the interface...
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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Or documentation, for that matter.
> OTOH, if you don't have either of these...
If someone releases a dll but not headers or documentation for it, you'll
probably better avoid using that dll. You can't expect for its interface to
not to change in the future.
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Warp wrote:
> If someone releases a dll but not headers or documentation for it, you'll
> probably better avoid using that dll. You can't expect for its interface to
> not to change in the future.
I'm thinking more about writing plugins, but where I don't have any
documentation that says what functions it's supposed to export. If you
can find a working plugin, you can find out what it exports.
Of course, with no clue what parameters each such function takes, or
what the hell it's supposed to do, it's still pretty hopeless I guess...
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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> I'm thinking more about writing plugins, but where I don't have any
> documentation that says what functions it's supposed to export.
Do you really want to write a plugin for a completely undocumented system?
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Warp wrote:
> Do you really want to write a plugin for a completely undocumented system?
Well, in the case of VST, it's not that it's undocumented, just that you
have to pay money for the documentation...
...but yeah, I guess it's pretty much a non-starter.
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On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:09:06 +0200, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> More puzzling: CoGetClassObject() allows you to get hold of any class by
> its ClassID. CoCreateInstance() creates any object given a ClassID and
> an InterfaceID. This gives you a pointer to the object's interface. But
> I cannot find any way of actually calling methods. If you have a DLL,
> you can do GetProcAddress() to look up a function and call it. But if
> you have an interface pointer, there doesn't seem to be any way to call
> methods of the interface...
An "interface" is a list of function pointers. In C and C++ the layout of
an interface is typically described in a header file.
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Invisible wrote:
> ...see a pattern yet?
Yes. It means Sun is too stupid to even know what a "GUID" is.
> Yep, there's a COM registration for every point-releast from 1.3.0_03 up
> to 1.5.0_11. Which is pretty crazy, no?
No.
> Next time you install some program and it says "registering components"
> or "writing registry keys", this is what it's doing. It's registering
> millions of COM ClassIDs!
Yes.
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I ordered stamps from Zazzle that read "Place Stamp Here".
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Invisible wrote:
>> I don’t even see the code anymore; all I see now is blonde, br
unette,
>> redhead...
>
> WIN!
For a minute there, I was honestly worried you might say "What?"
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Invisible wrote:
> Of course, with no clue what parameters each such function takes, or
> what the hell it's supposed to do, it's still pretty hopeless I guess...
Avoid that crap. That's exactly why there's so much crap-ware out there.
People release crap, and then (even worse) others battle to make it work for
them in a crappy way instead of just saying "Forget it, this is crap."
(Can you tell I'm sick of crapware today?)
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>> ...see a pattern yet?
>
> Yes. It means Sun is too stupid to even know what a "GUID" is.
This was my conclusion also.
Surely the correct behaviour would be to register a single interface and
give it a "do you support this API version?" method...
>> Next time you install some program and it says "registering
>> components" or "writing registry keys", this is what it's doing. It's
>> registering millions of COM ClassIDs!
>
> Yes.
Heh. I lost count of how many Office-related DLLs are in there. There's,
like, A LOT!
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>>> I don’t even see the code anymore; all I see now is blonde, brunette,
>>> redhead...
>>
>> WIN!
>
> For a minute there, I was honestly worried you might say "What?"
Well, it's not as if I've memorised every scene and every line of dialog
from The Matrix or anything like that...
...Mr Anderson.
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>> ...see a pattern yet?
>
> Yes. It means Sun is too stupid to even know what a "GUID" is.
Did anybody else notice that, unlike every other GUIDE on the planet,
these ones have a *pattern* in them?
CAFE-EFAC? Oh, that's cute. ABCDEF-FEDCBA? Come on, guys...
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Ooo... Gold Dust.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc301805.aspx
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Surely the correct behaviour would be to register a single interface and
> give it a "do you support this API version?" method...
Not necessarily. But I'm pretty sure you're not going to get good "globally
unique identifiers" by manually including english words in them.
> Heh. I lost count of how many Office-related DLLs are in there. There's,
> like, A LOT!
That's because you can program Office from outside of Office.
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc301805.aspx
Nice of them to include the link to part 2. :-P
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc301808.aspx
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On 10/12/2009 6:06 AM, Invisible wrote:
> C:\WINDOWS\system32\Audio3D.dll
>
> 0x100018F0 (0x02) DllGetObjectClass
> 0x10001A10 (0x03) DllCanUnloadNow
> 0x10001370 (0x04) _A3d@Create@12
>
> Fascinating stuff, eh?
That looks like a COM Dll... See if there's a .tlb file somewhere, or if
there's a type library embedded. Use oleview.exe:
http://www.microsoft.com/DownLoads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5233b70d-d9b2-4cb5-aeb6-45664be858b6&displaylang=en
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> That looks like a COM Dll... See if there's a .tlb file somewhere, or if
> there's a type library embedded. Use oleview.exe:
>
>
http://www.microsoft.com/DownLoads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5233b70d-d9b2-4cb5-aeb6-45664be858b6&displaylang=en
Ooo... shiny.
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On 10/12/2009 6:13 AM, Le_Forgeron wrote:
> Worse, How do you find which DLL are needed by a DLL ?
> There is a "dependancy walker" (from steve P. Miller) but that might
> not provide the argument list.
It won't. If you're lucky, the DLL will have C++ mangled names. That
will give you the types of parameters, provided you can decode the name
mangling. Good luck with that.
You'll notice some C functions often have an @ followed by a number.
IIRC, that's the number of bytes that should be on the stack when the
function is called. But, that's about as informative as it gets. No
names for the parameters, especially no description of what they do.
You're playing blind. Better be good at reading assembly to find out how
the parameters are being used. ;)
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Nice of them to include the link to part 2. :-P
I have noticed that virtually nobody actually goes back and fixes earlier
blog links to link to subsequent parts.
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Invisible wrote:
> OK, so here's a question: I think I understand how to load a DLL and
> call the functions it exports, but... how do you find out what functions
> a DLL exports?
>
> I mean, one way would be to find some documentation. But if you don't
> have any... is there some way to inspect the symbol list somehow? Can
> you get an argument list? How about type information?
Depends. Are we talking a COM supporting one? There are three flavors of
dll, one has internal entry points that you need a linking table to get
at. I.e., there is no stored internal data on what is there. Full COM
supporting ones (one ones using any such variation on the concept)
include an internal table and some standard method of "asking" what all
the calls, variables, types, etc. are. The third is a kind of hybred,
where "some" of the internals are exposed via the interface, but others
have been intentionally designed to only allow linking using the
header/table used to inform a compiler what they are.
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If Schrödingers_cat is alive or version > 98 {
if version = "Vista" {
call slow_by_half();
call DRM_everything();
}
call functional_code();
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> ...see a pattern yet?
>>
>> Yes. It means Sun is too stupid to even know what a "GUID" is.
>
> This was my conclusion also.
>
> Surely the correct behaviour would be to register a single interface and
> give it a "do you support this API version?" method...
>
>>> Next time you install some program and it says "registering
>>> components" or "writing registry keys", this is what it's doing. It's
>>> registering millions of COM ClassIDs!
>>
>> Yes.
>
> Heh. I lost count of how many Office-related DLLs are in there. There's,
> like, A LOT!
>
You sure you don't have "older" versions still installed too? When you
update the JRE it tends to leave prior versions, as a "just in case your
program requires some bug that was only in 1.3.0_03, but got fixed
later. I had to go back and manual uninstall like 4-5 of these, to free
up space on my HD. I stupidly installed them in C:, and didn't realize
at the time that the small size of that was going to produce bad
results, or that Sun didn't "replace" the install, instead of just
installing a new one.
Still, you get a bit of some of that with MS too, just not as much. In
principle, the version isn't relevant, only if the function is there,
and yes, if you do need a version, the sane solution is to ask if there
is an interface that is backward compatible to it in there some place.
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If Schrödingers_cat is alive or version > 98 {
if version = "Vista" {
call slow_by_half();
call DRM_everything();
}
call functional_code();
}
else
call crash_windows();
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Patrick Elliott wrote:
> You sure you don't have "older" versions still installed too?
Yes. I disabled autoupdates. Where I work, I have to document exactly
which version of the JRE I'm running. ;-)
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> I have noticed that virtually nobody actually goes back and fixes
> earlier blog links to link to subsequent parts.
Indeed, part 2 links to part 1, but not the other way around...
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Patrick Elliott wrote:
> Depends. Are we talking a COM supporting one? There are three flavors of
> dll, one has internal entry points that you need a linking table to get
> at. I.e., there is no stored internal data on what is there. Full COM
> supporting ones (one ones using any such variation on the concept)
> include an internal table and some standard method of "asking" what all
> the calls, variables, types, etc. are. The third is a kind of hybred,
> where "some" of the internals are exposed via the interface, but others
> have been intentionally designed to only allow linking using the
> header/table used to inform a compiler what they are.
The situation is far more complex than I imagined.
Apparently it is notionally possible to construct a DLL which actually
contains no executable code at all, only data. (Although I highly doubt
anybody *does* this...)
Man, the more you look, the more complex it gets! :-}
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My head hurts from reading about the wild zoo of possibilities here.
Damn, I wonder if I'll ever actually figure this stuff out? :-/
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Darren New schrieb:
> Not necessarily. But I'm pretty sure you're not going to get good
> "globally unique identifiers" by manually including english words in them.
Well, if you /know/ you're the /only/ one stupid enough to do that... :-P
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Orchid XP v8 schrieb:
> Apparently it is notionally possible to construct a DLL which actually
> contains no executable code at all, only data. (Although I highly doubt
> anybody *does* this...)
I once actually did - for a collection of self-made icons I wanted to
have displayed for certain files in Windows Explorer.
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Fredrik Eriksson wrote:
> An "interface" is a list of function pointers. In C and C++ the layout
> of an interface is typically described in a header file.
I see. So without the magic table that tells you the index of each
function pointer, you can't play with COM?
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>> Apparently it is notionally possible to construct a DLL which actually
>> contains no executable code at all, only data. (Although I highly
>> doubt anybody *does* this...)
>
> I once actually did - for a collection of self-made icons I wanted to
> have displayed for certain files in Windows Explorer.
Why not just have a bunch of .ico files?
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On 10/12/2009 10:34 AM, Invisible wrote:
> Well, in the case of VST, it's not that it's undocumented, just that you
> have to pay money for the documentation...
Naughty mascot. You don't have the license to create plugins. How much
is the SDK?
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>> Well, in the case of VST, it's not that it's undocumented, just that you
>> have to pay money for the documentation...
>
> Naughty mascot. You don't have the license to create plugins. How much
> is the SDK?
I just object to paying money for somebody to tell me the code numbers
of a set of functions, that's all.
(Kind of reminds me of that time my employer paid something like £900
for an envelope containing a sheet of paper with a number printed on it.
Like, WTF?)
It's not like I'm going to build a multi-million dollar software product
and not pay Steinburg. I'm only tinkering. ;-)
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On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:18:33 +0200, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> An "interface" is a list of function pointers. In C and C++ the layout
>> of an interface is typically described in a header file.
>
> I see. So without the magic table that tells you the index of each
> function pointer, you can't play with COM?
Pretty much.
Even if every function had been exposed directly in DLL export tables, you
would be no better off because you would still need to know the function
signatures. The bottom line is that you cannot reasonably expect to use an
interface (of any kind, not just COM) without documentation.
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FE
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Fredrik Eriksson wrote:
> The bottom line is that you cannot reasonably
> expect to use an interface (of any kind, not just COM) without
> documentation.
Yeah, figures.
Oh well, dream on...
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Invisible wrote:
>>> Apparently it is notionally possible to construct a DLL which
>>> actually contains no executable code at all, only data. (Although I
>>> highly doubt anybody *does* this...)
>>
>> I once actually did - for a collection of self-made icons I wanted to
>> have displayed for certain files in Windows Explorer.
>
> Why not just have a bunch of .ico files?
Because it would be a bunch of .ico files? lol Sort of the same reason
they make zipped files, or one sort or another, with games, for levels.
You just download/update *one* file, not dozens. Though, unlike dlls,
patchers will tend to use something similar to the "add to .zip/.rar"
function when updating things. Even windows uses icons in a dll, keeping
all the default ones in a single source file, which gets shown in cases
like where you have a file that doesn't have its own internal icon, and
you try to change the one being used.
But, yeah. I forgot that dlls can also just be sort of like resource
forks too.
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If Schrödingers_cat is alive or version > 98 {
if version = "Vista" {
call slow_by_half();
call DRM_everything();
}
call functional_code();
}
else
call crash_windows();
}
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> (Kind of reminds me of that time my employer paid something like £900 for
> an envelope containing a sheet of paper with a number printed on it. Like,
> WTF?)
Hehe, we just paid about 4000 pounds for a 46 byte text file :-)
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