PCI Express

[mdye]

I've been trying to call this Driver DLL with a C# app and I'm just not having very much luck.

First I tried the way I normally call DLLs with [DLLimport]. This did not work, as the DLL has no entry points. Here's the Dumpbin /exports for the DLL:

D:\DLL>dumpbin /exports DriverMgr2.dll

Microsoft (R) COFF/PE Dumper Version 9.00.21022.08

Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

Dump of file DriverMgr2.dll

File Type: DLL

  Section contains the following exports for DriverMgr.DLL

    00000000 characteristics

    460AA39C time date stamp Wed Mar 28 11:19:24 2007

        0.00 version

           1 ordinal base

           4 number of functions

           4 number of names

    ordinal hint RVA      name

          1    0 000010C4 DllCanUnloadNow

          2    1 00001114 DllGetClassObject

          3    2 00001131 DllRegisterServer

          4    3 00001144 DllUnregisterServer

  Summary

        3000 .data

        3000 .rdata

        1000 .reloc

        2000 .rsrc

        D000 .text

None of the functions like "OpenDevice" are there, and I can't figure out how to modify the DLL source to make the regular functions appear as entry points, but the DLL uses a format I'm unfamiliar with.

So then I tried just added the DLL as a resource in my C# application. It created the interop DLL and I could call that just fine. The problem is that it didn't include any pointers in the function parameters...they are just missing. So instead of OpenDevice(long *status), it's just OpenDevice().

I've been trying to find a way to fix this for way to long. There has to be a better way, and someone has to have done this before. The VB GUI example seems to just import the DLL and everything works fine. Why am I having so much trouble with this?

Any and all help is appriciated! 

[charlie5360]

I am having the exact same problem!  Does anyone know the best way to use XAPP1052 DriverMgr functions within C#?

[mdye]

I ended up giving up trying to get it implemented in C# after spending wayyy too long trying to get it working. I'm currently re-writing DriverMgr so that it can be imported easily by c# (which means just using extern "C" with all the functions and using plain types). It's kind of a pain though since I'm having to go through and modify a bunch of stuff.

[charlie5360]

Interesting.  Are you using Visual Studio 2005 to edit DriverMgr?  I am trying to start out with some small changes to DriverMgr (in s3_1000.cpp), but I am having a real problem getting the new DriverMgr2.dll I generate to work with their existing app.  I thought it was because I have to upgrade their project files from Visual Studio 6 to 2005, and then all their dependencies were messed up.  So I opened up a VS 2005 Command Prompt and just ran their DriverMgr.mak file, creating a new DriverMgr2.dll in the ReleaseMinDependency folder.  In the setup.exe CAB file, I replaced the original DriverMgr2.dll with my slightly altered one, and edited the Setup.lst file to reflect the new timestamp.  Then I try to re-install the PCIe Demo, but it always get a "Failed to register DriverMgr2.dll" error.

I'm kind of new to working with DLL's -- how are you changing and using your newly generated DriverMgr2.dll (if that's even what you're doing!) ?

Thanks a lot,

Charlie

[mdye]

I'm using visual studio 2009, and I'm not cmopiling the original drivermgr, I am creating a new project, copying in the functions, and changing parameters and data structures and functions that require a lot of dependencies. Then I am setting up the DLL the way that works for everything, using extern "C" and  __declspec(dllexport). I wish the original drivermgr worked like that.

I was able to get DriverMgr to compile...but I don't remember what I did, and it didn't actually help me at all. 

There might be an easier way to implement DriverMgr in C# but I could not find it. I'm still a bit puzzled as to how they got their visual basic example working (but I don't really know visual basic).

[wes.edens]

did anyone figure out how to import this dll into csharp? I am having the same issue

[murali1010]

Hi..

I also have a similar problem. I tried opening the sample VB application(.vbp) in VS2008, which asked for upgrade to open. After upgrading the project interop dlls were created for DriverMgr and .vbproj file is created.

I could build the application and upon running resulted in Error at StartDMA() function stating Exception read or write access violation. Is there any resolution to this problem.

Thanks in advance.

[shuns]

Hi All,

I think this is not a FPGA question anymore, but more a driver one. This forum board might not be the best place for this kind of questions. Perhpas it would better be asked in other OS forums.