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Call a function of VB DLL file from java using JNA


I am new to using JNA.In all what i want to do is use the vb DLL file in java & call the functions from java. I created a simple java code for this.

import com.sun.jna.Library;
import com.sun.jna.Native;
import com.sun.jna.Platform;

public class Main
{
    public interface test extends Library
    {
        void fn_Today(int a,int b);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        test INSTANCE = (test) Native.loadLibrary(
            (Platform.isWindows() ? "test" : "test"), test.class);

        int a = 1;
        int b=2;

        INSTANCE .fn_Today(a,b); 
    }
}

When i run this java program i am getting following error-

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Error looking up      function 'fn_Today': The specified procedure could not be found.

at com.sun.jna.Function.<init>(Function.java:179)
at com.sun.jna.NativeLibrary.getFunction(NativeLibrary.java:344)
at com.sun.jna.NativeLibrary.getFunction(NativeLibrary.java:324)
at com.sun.jna.Library$Handler.invoke(Library.java:203)
at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy0.fn_Today(Unknown Source)
at mwrobel.jna.Main.main(Main.java:27)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:134)

Dll code is as

Public Function fn_Today(ival As Integer, ival2 As Integer)
Dim ret As Integer
ret = ival + ival2

End Function

How can i solved this issue?

i got the following output from dependency walker.

Warning: At least one delay-load dependency module was not found.
Warning: At least one module has an unresolved import due to a missing  
export function in a delay-load dependent module.

Solution

  • If your VB DLL is a C-compatible shared library (if you run Dependency Walker on it you'll see labels of the form XXX@NNN), then the following should work.

    import com.sun.jna.win32.StdCallFunctionMapper;
    import com.sun.jna.win32.StdCallLibrary;
    
    public class Main
    {
        public interface TestLibrary extends StdCallLibrary
        {
            void fn_Today(int a,int b);
        }
    
        public static void main(String[] args)
        {
            Map options = new HashMap() {
                { put(Library.OPTION_FUNCTION_MAPPER, new StdCallFunctionMapper()) }
            };
            TestLibrary INSTANCE = (TestLibrary) Native.loadLibrary("test", TestLibrary.class, options);
    
            // ...
        }
    }