Hi guys, I'm going absolutely mad trying to get my function pointers to work correctly - I can load the DLL, but the function pointers always return an unused value no matter what I do with them, or how I rewrite them. You're looking at many, many hours of frustration, reading, debugging, experimenting and generally getting nowhere. Here's a version with the unecessary gubbins thrown out; Usage (directory and functionName are appropriate and correct strings)

	HINSTANCE hinstLib;
	hinstLib = LoadLibrary(directory);

	DWORD error = GetLastError();

	typedef string(*GetString)();

	GetString getString = (GetString)GetProcAddress(hinstLib, functionName);

DLL Header

#ifndef ASEXPORT
#define DLLIMPORTOREXPORT dllimport
#else
#define DLLIMPORTOREXPORT dllexport
#endif

extern "C"__declspec(dllexport) string GetString();

Not that GetLastError returns 0 (completed successfully). Any ideas on what I should be looking at? I've tried writing this in quite a few different ways, so there must be something fundamentally wrong somewhere.

ignore, misread

Edit: Clarification.

I just used non-specific string types for the purposes of example.

The real strings in the application are std::string, but have been converted using c_str() when used in the windows function calls. For the record, I'm using the multi-byte character set.

Thanks,

Luke