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I want to export a simple function from C++, to be called by C# via PInvoke. This is my function definition:

 int fnValue()
{
    return 42;
}

And this is the export definition in .h file:

__declspec(dllexport)  int fnValue();

This is how I PInvoke the function:

    [DllImport("WhatDll.dll")]
    public static extern int fnValue();

Simple, right? But I got a

System.EntryPointNotFoundException :
Unable to find an entry ‘point named
‘fnValue’ in DLL “WhatDll.dll’

I use dumpbin to check what’s inside WhatDll, and this is what I have:

00000000 characteristics 4CFB5C95
time date stamp Sun Dec 05 17:34:13
2010
0.00 version
1 ordinal base
4 number of functions
4 number of names

ordinal hint RVA name

   1    2 00011014 ?fnValue@@YAHXZ = @ILT+15(?fnValue@@YAHXZ)

Note that there is some gibberish behind the function name fnValue.

This is pretty puzzling. Any idea?

Answer 1

Try to write

extern "C"__declspec(dllexport)  int fnValue();