State of windows DLL support

Nicholas Wilson via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Sun Apr 3 15:54:05 PDT 2016


On Sunday, 3 April 2016 at 14:34:07 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Sunday, 3 April 2016 at 14:19:17 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Have you actually tried doing this in practice and getting it 
> to work?
>
> Even with correct function signatures, you'd need more than 
> just the types to correctly marshall the data between 
> processes. RPC is generally done with a subset of types with 
> well-defined serializations.
>
> How would you even get GetProcAddress hooking working in this 
> scenario? You wouldn't even know the number of arguments, much 
> less their types!

Hence why i wanted to do it in separate processes communicating 
via a (whatever the windows version is of a) pipe or on localhost


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