I've had some problems passing string as PChar to Delphi built DLL, and resolved it thanks to Jens Mühlenhoff.
Now I have another issue -
I've made successful callback of c# method when passed to DLL if the Delphi declaration is a regular type procedure, but if Delphi declaration is a method type procedure I get "Attempted to read or write protected memory" error.
I tried searching...
Here is Delphi declaration
TCallBack = procedure ( s : String) of object;stdcall;
Here is C# code
[DllImport(
"DLLTest.dll",
CallingConvention = CallingConvention.StdCall,
CharSet = CharSet.Ansi,
EntryPoint = "DLL_Test"
)]
public static extern void DLL_Test(IntPtr p, [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPStr)] string Location, int AIntValue);
public delegate void MethodCallBackEvent(string s);
public event MethodCallBackEvent Info;
public void GetInfo(string s)
{
MessageBox.Show("Info: " + s);
}
used as
Info = GetInfo; //or Info = new MethodCallBackEvent(GetInfo);
IntPtr p = Marshal.GetFunctionPointerForDelegate(Info);
DLL_Test(p, "location message", 10);
Here is a working example. DllTest1 is using a normal function callback. DllTest2 expects the callback as a direct C# function pointer (requires a small hack on the Delphi side), and DllTest3 expects a Delphi method callback pointer (requires a small hack on the C# side).
// Delphi
library test;
uses
SysUtils;
{$R *.res}
type
TCallback = procedure (P: PChar); stdcall;
TMethodCallback = procedure (P: PChar) of object; stdcall;
procedure DllTest1(Callback: TCallback; P: PChar; I: Integer); stdcall;
var
S: string;
begin
S := Format('DllTest1 ''%s'' %d', [P, I]);
if Assigned(Callback) then
Callback(PChar(S));
end;
procedure DllTest2(_Callback: Pointer; P: PChar; I: Integer); stdcall;
var
Callback: TMethodCallback absolute _Callback;
S: string;
begin
S := Format('DllTest2 ''%s'' %d', [P, I]);
if Assigned(Callback) then
Callback(PChar(S));
end;
procedure DllTest3(Callback: TMethodCallback; P: PChar; I: Integer); stdcall;
var
S: string;
begin
S := Format('DllTest3 ''%s'' %d', [P, I]);
if Assigned(Callback) then
Callback(PChar(S));
end;
exports
DllTest1,
DllTest2,
DllTest3;
begin
end.
// C#
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
namespace DllTest
{
class Program
{
public struct Method
{
public IntPtr code;
public IntPtr data;
}
[DllImport("Test.dll", CallingConvention = CallingConvention.StdCall, CharSet = CharSet.Ansi, EntryPoint = "DllTest1")]
public static extern void DllTest1(IntPtr p, [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPStr)] string s, int i);
[DllImport("Test.dll", CallingConvention = CallingConvention.StdCall, CharSet = CharSet.Ansi, EntryPoint = "DllTest2")]
public static extern void DllTest2(IntPtr p, [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPStr)] string s, int i);
[DllImport("Test.dll", CallingConvention = CallingConvention.StdCall, CharSet = CharSet.Ansi, EntryPoint = "DllTest3")]
public static extern void DllTest3(Method m, [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPStr)] string s, int i);
public delegate void Callback([MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPStr)] string s);
public delegate void MethodCallback(IntPtr self, [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPStr)] string s);
public static void ShowInfo(string s)
{
Console.WriteLine("Info: " + s);
}
public static void ShowMethodInfo(IntPtr self, string s)
{
Console.WriteLine("Info: " + s);
}
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Method m;
Callback info = ShowInfo;
MethodCallback methodInfo = ShowMethodInfo;
IntPtr p = Marshal.GetFunctionPointerForDelegate(info);
IntPtr pm = Marshal.GetFunctionPointerForDelegate(methodInfo);
// function callback example
DllTest1(p, "test", 42);
// method callback example 1
DllTest2(pm, "test", 42);
// method callback example 2
m.code = pm;
m.data = IntPtr.Zero;
DllTest3(m, "test", 42);
}
}
}