Making dlls with Visual C++ Express Edition Beta 2

Making dlls with Visual C++ Express Edition Beta 2

• Robert McNeal

  I went to View | Propert Manager, then Double Clicked on the Release|Win32 Heading.  That opened up the Release Property Pages which has a Configuration Type entry under Project Defaults.  That is where I could select a DLL.

  This was with the Release version, not Beta 2.

  
  

• Hilton123

  It looks like you are correct in that the wizard disables the radio button. I will look into fixing that but in the meantime, you can always create the project as a static lib and then go to the project properties and switch the configuration type to make it a dll project.
  
  Thanks,

  
  
  

• eburke56

  Indeed, I spoke a little quickly.
  
  One of the wizards available for new projects is "Win32 Project". This wizard then has a section called "Application settings" where one of the options is "static library" (and there's also "DLL" but it's grayed out, as mentioned before). If you choose this option, finish the wizard, you can then manually edit the project to be a dll in the manner which I described above.
  
  I hope this helps,
  
  
  
  
  

• David Carr

  Step by step instructions on how to do this would be nice.  I too am trying to start development on Maya plugins, but can't find the DLL options.  In my beta2 version of VC++ Express 2005 In the New Projects wizard there is no option for static libraries, just CLR libraries and Control Libraries.
  
  

• yunjian

  You should also download the 'Platform SDK' (search MSDN) ...it has a skeleton sample of a DLL project in there as well as lots of other stuff.  Big download though.  Also has all the documentation for Windows internals and all that good stuff...kind of a must have if you're going to do Windows development.
  
  Davey
  
  
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