Re: [ctypes-users] Calling a DLL from python like I would from VB

[Grzegorz A. H. <gha...@ra...>]

Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz wrote:
> This is the problem. I rewrote the example to go through all functions 
> calling them expecting a string. So the "GetVersionDLL" alias #2 in 
> Visual Basic is function index 1003, which correctly returns the 
> expected string.
> 
> Insane. And the other functions don't seem to be 'near' in the list, it 
> looks much more like random. This leads me to think whether VB is using 
> somewhere some extra info which tells it how to filter the correct 
> calls. But where does it come from?

Finally I found the culprit: me. Looks like in my tests I wasn't loading 
the same version of the DLL which the final product would use. I made 
sure to remove the myriad of similar DLLs I had and then yes, the same 
aliases from VB work as expected.

Sorry for the troubles, I'll go cry to my corner.

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