PInvoke Unbalances the stack
c#, c++, dll, pinvoke
Solution
The calling conventions don't match. In C++, declare the function with the stdcall calling convention:
extern "C" bool __declspec(dllexport) __stdcall SpiceStart(char* installPath)
Problem
Good afternoon, I have been working on a dll that can use CORBA to communicate to an application that is network aware. The code works fine if I run it as a C++ console application. However, I have gotten stuck on exporting the methods as a dll. The methods seems to export fine, and if I call a method with no parameters then it works as expected. I'm hung up on passing a C# string to a C++ method. My C++ method header looks like this: ``` bool __declspec(dllexport) SpiceStart(char* installPath) ``` My C# DLL import code is as follows: ``` [DllImportAttribute("SchemSipc.dll", CharSet=CharSet.Ansi)] private static extern bool SpiceStart(string installPath); ``` I call the method like so: ``` bool success = SpiceStart(@"c:\sedatools"); ``` The call to SpiceStart throws the exception "PInvokeStackImbalance", which "is likely because the managed PInvoke signature does not match the unmanaged target signature." Does anyone have any suggestions? If I remove the char* and string from the parameters, then the method runs just fine. However, I'd like to be able to pass the installation path of the application to the dll from C#. Thanks in advance, Giawa