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Hi all,

I have a DLL Function which requires the type BIGNUM**. I have tried multiple ways, but I just cant get it to work.

Currently I am:

1. Making a DLLCall() to get a pointer to a new BigNum Structure.

2. Making another DLL call to assign a number to that structure <--- AutoIt hard crash at this point.

So does anyone know how to pass a pointer to a pointer via DLLCall? This is what I have so far (dw, only 33 lines)

$_BigNum_DLL = DllOpen("libeay32.dll")

; BIGNUM *BN_new(void);
Func BigNum_New()
$val = DllCall($_BigNum_DLL, "ptr", "BN_new")
return SetError( @error, @extended, $val)
EndFunc

; int BN_dec2bn(BIGNUM **a, const char *str);
Func BigNum_Assign($BNNum, $sNum)
;$struct = DllStructCreate("ptr num;")
;DllStructSetData($struct, "num", $BNNum) ;Passing the pointer from this didnt work either.

$retval = DllCall($_BigNum_DLL, "int", "BN_dec2bn", "ptr*", $BNNum, "str", $sNum)
ConsoleWrite("RETVAL: " & $retval & @CRLF)
EndFunc



$test = BigNum_New()
BigNum_Assign($test, "1000")

Thanks in advance for all the help you can give me. Having not used DLLCall much, I am stumped.

Edited by twitchyliquid64

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1. dllcall returns the result in retval[0], so this should be fixed in both functions.

2.

;$struct = DllStructCreate("ptr num;")
;DllStructSetData($struct, "num", $BNNum) ;Passing the pointer from this didnt work either.

this is correct too, you just need to pass

DllStructGetPtr($struct,1)

instead of $BNNUm in second call

Ever wanted to call functions in another process? ProcessCall UDFConsole stuff: Console UDFC Preprocessor for AutoIt OMG

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Thankyou Shaggi!

I made the changes you recommended, however I am still getting hard crashes.

<snip>

Func BigNum_New()
$val = DllCall($_BigNum_DLL, "ptr", "BN_new")
return $val[0]
EndFunc

; int BN_dec2bn(BIGNUM **a, const char *str);
Func BigNum_Assign($BNNum, $sNum)
$struct = DllStructCreate("ptr num;")
DllStructSetData($struct, "num", $BNNum) ;Passing the pointer from this didnt work either.

$retval = DllCall($_BigNum_DLL, "int", "BN_dec2bn", "ptr*", DllStructGetPtr($struct), "str", $sNum)
ConsoleWrite("RETVAL: " & $retval[0] & @CRLF)
EndFunc



$test = BigNum_New()
BigNum_Assign($test, "1000")

1. Using DllStructGetPtr($struct, 1) instead of DllStructGetPtr($struct) makes no difference

2. Using "ptr" instead of "ptr*" makes no difference.

Edited by twitchyliquid64

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Probably should be "ptr*" (asterisk). Try changing calling convention to cdecl.

I realised how much of a retard I was as soon as you said it. AutoIt uses STDCALL by default doesnt it?

Thanks trancexx and Shaggi for your help!

For completeness, here is the final solution: To pointer* pass you setup a struct and pass the pointer to the struct.

; int BN_dec2bn(BIGNUM **a, const char *str);
Func BigNum_Assign($BNNum, $sNum)
    $struct = DllStructCreate("ptr num;")
    DllStructSetData($struct, "num", $BNNum) ;Passing the pointer from this didnt work either.

    $retval = DllCall($_BigNum_DLL, "int:cdecl", "BN_dec2bn", "ptr", DllStructGetPtr($struct), "str", $sNum)
    ConsoleWrite("RETVAL: " & $retval[0] & @CRLF)
EndFunc

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