32-bit DLL has 64-bit dependancies

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Hi Guys,

I've built a DLL in C++ to use in a C# application. The DLL was built for Win32 but, according to Dependency Walker, it has 64-bit dependancies. What did I do wrong?

Also, am I correct in thinking that a 32-bit DLL can be used from a C# application running on either 32 or 64 bit systems?

Thanks.....

Posted 13-Apr-15 6:33am

Steve Harp

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Albert Holguin 13-Apr-15 12:59pm

What are the dependencies (maybe screen cap and place somewhere)? This really shouldn't be the case.

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Not enough information to say what do you do wrong.

You need to understand that you cannot mix different instruction-set architectures in one process. Not only 32-bit (x86) with 64-bit, but you cannot mix different 64-bit architectures (x86-64 (also known as AMD64) and IE-64 (Itanium), they are different). Please see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instruction_set,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium.

Yes, you can use 32-bit DLL on a 64-bit OS, but how? Only in some 32-bit processes. On Windows, this is done via WoW64: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WoW64.

—SA

Posted 13-Apr-15 7:10am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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peterkmx · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-13T07:05:00

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Hi Steve,
I was curious about this and after googling a bit I found as a possible solution to use a 32-bit Dep.walker for 32-bit binaries on a 64-bit system. Otherwise the results can be confusing. This seems to be explained for example in
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/a371bc8d-e16a-4d0a-8849-38ca60b4a7b4/32-bit-console-application-on-64bit-system-and-dependency-walker?forum=vclanguage[^]

Cheers,

Posted 13-Apr-15 7:05am

peterkmx

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Steve Harp 13-Apr-15 13:29pm

This is correct for the question about dependencies. When I use the 32-bit version of Dependency Walker, it reports everything as x86.

peterkmx 14-Apr-15 2:38am

Sounds good, thank you for providig feedback ...

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