Re: [Mingw-users] SOLVED: building Photoshop plugins with mingw

[Toby T. <tob...@te...>]

On Sunday, November 10, 2002, at 02:22 PM, Toby Thain wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> I've spent quite a few dozen hours trying to track down a problem with 
> Photoshop plugins built for Windows.

> ... On invoking the plugin in Photoshop for Windows (this has been 
> tested on 2 different PCs), the plugin is entered and exited several 
> times as expected, after which an invalid page fault invariably occurs 
> in Photoshop. ...
>
> The main entry point is documented to need stdcall conventions and 
> this has been set in the source


This was my mistake; the entry point must use default calling 
conventions (NOT stdcall). After removing the stdcall modifier from the 
main function, the plugin runs fine. I'm not sure where I got the 
stdcall idea from!

Toby