Hi,
I have written a DLL in C/C++ which uses COM internally.
While trying to call function in DLL, I have found out that COM is not getting initialised. I am initialising COM in C.
consider following example
IN C/C++#define DLLEXPORT extern "C" __declspec(dllexport)DLLEXPORT int Init_COM()
{
int result = 1;
//printf("\n*** INITIALIZING ***\n\n");
HRESULT hr = CoInitializeEx(NULL, COINIT_MULTITHREADED);
if (FAILED(hr))
{
result = -8;
//printf("\nERROR: COM INITIALIZATION FAILED");
}
else
{
//do work here
}
return result;
}
DLLEXPORT int some_function()
{
CComPtr pPortableDevice;
.
.
.
//now I call COM functions first to initialise the pointer and then to do some work
//But because COM is not initialised this will fail
return some_val;
}
The value returned in python in -8, meaning COM initialization Failed. I am very new to python and hence don''t know how to use function written in c/c++ in a DLL using COM in python! Please HELP..
IN Python I import the DLL
from ctypes import *
cdll.LoadLibrary("MY_DLL.dll") as my_dll #or import MY_DLL.dll
return_val = my_dll.Init_COM() #returns -8
return_val = my_dll.some_function() #wont work
I dont exactly remember python syntax so there might be some error above!
Thank You
解决方案provided by CPallini:
It looks you''re correctly calling your DLL.
I guess CoInitializeEx is returning RPC_E_CHANGED_MODE (i.e. you are trying to change threading model of an already initialized COM), however the best way to know is exporting the of value of hr (or debugging to see it).
It looks to me like your COM has not been initialized properly and like Vinay mentioned try exporting the value of hr or any other variable just as a test first. There are two things I feel might have gone wrong here.
1) Make sure all your COM port parameters are set properly, I can''t see where you are initializing them. (For eg: Baud rate, data bits, parity, stop bits, Flow control etc)
2) Check all your connections obviously (which I''m sure you have done): which COM port, serial connection etc.
I''m not sure if this would help or not, but I usually use:
AFX_MANAGE_STATE(AfxGetStaticModuleState());
at the beginning of each function. (standard DLL accessing procedure for me).