I'm trying to write a dll using the example given in the manual.
Unfortunately, my application crashes when I try to execute it. I turned to
the example provided in the sample folder to see if I was making an error, but
when I tried to execute test.exe I got the same error.
Does anyone have any working examples describing the creation of dlls for the
win32 platform? Any help would be appreciated.

The dmd\samples\d\mydll works for me. Below is the output for build.bat and test.exe. The implib tool is something people are often missing because it is a part of DMC not DMD. You can get it from DMC's Basic Utilities (http://ftp.digitalmars.com/bup.zip).

  Bradley


C:\dmd\samples\d\mydll>build.bat

C:\dmd\samples\d\mydll>..\..\..\bin\dmd -ofmydll.dll mydll2.d dll.d mydll.def
C:\dmd\bin\..\..\dm\bin\link.exe
mydll2+dll,mydll.dll,,user32+kernel32,mydll.def/noi;

C:\dmd\samples\d\mydll>implib/system mydll.lib mydll.dll
Digital Mars Import Library Manager Version 8.41n
Copyright (C) Digital Mars 2000-2004 All Rights Reserved, www.digitalmars.com
implib/h for help
Input is a Windows NT DLL file 'MYDLL.DLL'.
Output is a Windows NT import library.
Digital Mars Import Library Creator complete.

C:\dmd\samples\d\mydll>..\..\..\bin\dmd test.d mydll.lib
C:\dmd\bin\..\..\dm\bin\link.exe test,,,mydll.lib+user32+kernel32/noi;

C:\dmd\samples\d\mydll>test.exe
hello dll world

C:\dmd\samples\d\mydll>

Lee wrote:
> I'm trying to write a dll using the example given in the manual.
> Unfortunately, my application crashes when I try to execute it. I turned to
> the example provided in the sample folder to see if I was making an error, but
> when I tried to execute test.exe I got the same error.
> Does anyone have any working examples describing the creation of dlls for the
> win32 platform? Any help would be appreciated.