I am from electric engineer background, therefore my knownledge is small about C#,DLL,etc.... I want to use c function into a C#. I know there is a couple post about that but I didn't find one that is enough simple.
Currently, I got C function call windows API to read/write on the USB port. First to create a .dll do I need a header file? Because I got the following function decleration function into a header. The examples that I saw on stack overflow and Internet only use a simple .c file, Can I get rid of the header files?
__declspec(dllexport) LMUSB_HANDLE __stdcall InitializeDevice(unsigned short usVID,
unsigned short usPID,
LPGUID lpGUID,
BOOL *pbDriverInstalled);
__declspec(dllexport) LMUSB_HANDLE __stdcall InitializeDeviceByIndex(unsigned short usVID,
unsigned short usPID,
LPGUID lpGUID,
DWORD dwIndex,
BOOL bOpenDataEndpoints,
BOOL *pbDriverInstalled);
__declspec(dllexport) BOOL __stdcall TerminateDevice(LMUSB_HANDLE hHandle);
__declspec(dllexport) BOOL __stdcall WriteUSBPacket(LMUSB_HANDLE hHandle,
unsigned char *pcBuffer,
unsigned long ulSize,
unsigned long *pulWritten);
__declspec(dllexport) DWORD __stdcall ReadUSBPacket(LMUSB_HANDLE hHandle,
unsigned char *pcBuffer,
unsigned long ulSize,
unsigned long *pulRead,
unsigned long ulTimeoutMs,
HANDLE hBreak);
__declspec(dllexport) BOOL __stdcall Endpoint0Transfer(LMUSB_HANDLE hHandle, UCHAR ucRequestType,
UCHAR ucRequest, USHORT usValue,
USHORT usIndex, USHORT usLength,
PUCHAR pucBuffer, PUSHORT pusCount);
Second point, do I need to write __declspec(dllexport) in the cpp file? Here an function from the cpp:
extern "C" __declspec(dllexport) BOOL PASCAL EXPORT TerminateDevice(LMUSB_HANDLE hUSB)
I got no idea what "BOOL PASCAL EXPORT" does, this code is recycled from a furnisher project.
Finaly, when the DLL is properly build. How I import it in the C# project? I tried the following but without success :
[DllImport("lmusbdll.dll")]
I see that you could use right click on the project and add reference but Visual Studio pop-up an error message:
A reference to "DLL path" could not be added. Please make sure that the file is accessible, and that it is a valid assembly or COM component.
[EDIT]
I tried the following solution , but when I tried to reference the header file in my c# project. I still get the message that I cannot reference the file.