Question

I have a static library that may get linked into either a .exe or a .dll. At runtime I want one of my library functions to get the HMODULE for whatever thing the static library code has been linked into.

I currently use the following trick (inspired from this forum):

const HMODULE GetCurrentModule() {     MEMORY_BASIC_INFORMATION mbi = {0};     ::VirtualQuery( GetCurrentModule, &mbi, sizeof(mbi) );      return reinterpret_cast<HMODULE>(mbi.AllocationBase); } 

Is there a better way to do this that doesn’t look so hacky?

(Note: The purpose of this is to load some Win32 resources that I know my users will have linked in at the same time as my static library.)

Answer 1

HMODULE GetCurrentModule() { // NB: XP+ solution!   HMODULE hModule = NULL;   GetModuleHandleEx(     GET_MODULE_HANDLE_EX_FLAG_FROM_ADDRESS,     (LPCTSTR)GetCurrentModule,     &hModule);    return hModule; }