[GD-Windows] DLL initialization (was: Loading new DLLs on old Windows)

[Andras B. <bn...@ma...>]

My program supports dynamic loading of plugins. Every plugin
represents a class, and resides in a separate DLL. Instead of
exporting the class itself, I only export a factory function and
provide a header file with the declaration of the pure virtual base
class (ie. the interface). At runtime, I load the DLL and call the
exported factory function, which instances an object and returns a
pointer to the base class.

This architecture works like a charm on most machines. However, on
some configurations, my program reports the following: "Error Code
1114: A dynamic link library (DLL) initialization routine failed."

But I have no clue why. Do I have to use DllMain? MSDN says it's only
an optional entrypoint.. My DLLs are dynamically linked to the C/CPP
run-time libraries.


Thanks,

Andras