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Need help marshalling to unmanaged C library

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Thomas Connolly - 21 Dec 2004 21:38 GMT
Hello List,
I have a c library that has the following signature:

If I have a C function that takes a  'const char* identifierString' as a parameter,

would the following be the correct way to handle this?

[DllImport(DLL_DIRECTORY_PATH)]
public static extern void MyExternalFunction(IntPtr identifierString);

and then to call it:

string identString = "My identifier string";
IntPtr ptrToString = Marshal.StringToHGlobalAnsi(identString);
MyExternalFunction(ptrToString);
Eric Carlson - 24 Dec 2004 16:57 GMT
This should work:

public static extern void MyExternalFunction(string identifierString);

And you may need to apply a marshas attribute to this parameter depending on
what type of string the C function is expecting, for example:

public static extern void
MyExternalFunction([MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPStr)]  string identifierString);

usually you only need to use the intptr for more complex cases

> Hello List,
> I have a c library that has the following signature:
[quoted text clipped - 11 lines]
> IntPtr ptrToString = Marshal.StringToHGlobalAnsi(identString);
> MyExternalFunction(ptrToString);

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