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Hi !
I want to port my 32bit VB-Fortran code to the 64bit platform, consisting in calling a fortran DLL both from VBA (ie: Excel) and VB.NET. In the attached pieces of code, everything runs fine in 32bit OS. In 64bit OS, VBA (64bit Excel) works fine, but VB.NET (calling the same 64bit DLL) crashes.
All fortran compilations (both 32bit and 64bit) were done as: ifort -dll -static polar.for
Does anybody has an idea what am I doing wrong?
VB.NET code
Private Declare Sub check1 Lib "c:\temp\polar.dll" (ByRef s1 as Single, ByRef i1 As Integer)
Private Declare Sub check0 Lib "c:\temp\polar.dll" (ByRef d1 As Double, ByRef i1 As Integer)
Dim aa As Single, ii As Integer : aa = 0.5 : ii = 6
Call check1(aa, ii) 'works OK
MsgBox("aa=" & aa.ToString & " ii=" & ii.ToString)
Dim bb(0 To 1000 - 1) As Double, jj(0 To 1000 - 1) As Integer
Call check0(bb(0), jj(0)) 'crashes !!!
MsgBox("bb(0)=" & bb(0).ToString & " jj(0)=" & jj(0).ToString)
VBA code
Private Declare PtrSafe Sub check1 Lib "c:\temp\polar.dll" (s1 As Single, i1 As Long)
Private Declare PtrSafe Sub check0 Lib "c:\temp\polar.dll" (d1 As Double, i1 As Long)
Dim aa As Single, ii As Long: aa = 0.5: ii = 6
Call check1(aa, ii) 'works OK
MsgBox "aa=" & Str$(aa) & " ii=" & Str$(ii)
Dim bb(0 To 1000 - 1) As Double, jj(0 To 1000 - 1) As Long
Call check0(bb(0), jj(0)) 'works OK
MsgBox "bb(0)=" & Str$(bb(0)) & " jj(0)=" & Str$(jj(0))
FORTRAN code
SUBROUTINE check1 (a,n)
!dec$ attributes dllexport,stdcall,reference,alias : "check1" :: check1
REAL*4 a
INTEGER*4 n
a = a + 1.0
n = n - 1
RETURN
END
SUBROUTINE check0 (a,n)
!dec$ attributes dllexport,stdcall,reference,alias : "check0" :: check0
REAL*8 a(0:999)
INTEGER*4 n(0:999)
a = 3.14159
n = -999
RETURN
END
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dfousekcres.gr wrote:
Hi FortranFan !
It works on x86 systems, therefore why stdcall would be performed differently on x64 systems?
Dimitri
Dimitri,
With C calling convention and standard C interoperability features in Fortran, both x86 and x64 seem to work as shown below. Perhaps you can take this and adapt it for your needs. I've long left stdcall behind and can't recall many of the details, but I thought it was largely irrelevant for x64 systems - so you may want to investigate on MSDN.com. But then I don't know if the code below would work with VBA, You can try it out and report back here.
By the way, are you really interested in passing fixed size arrays across? A better option might be to have assumed size arrays on Fortran side with an additional parameter for the size and on the .NET side, just pass arrays by reference along with the size parameter.
Good luck,
Fortran code:
module m use, intrinsic :: iso_c_binding, only : c_int, c_double, c_float implicit none private public :: check1 public :: check0 contains subroutine check1(a, n) bind( c, name="check1" ) !.. argument list real(kind=c_float), intent(inout) :: a integer(kind=c_int), intent(inout) :: n a = a + 1.0_c_float n = n - 1_c_int return end subroutine check1 subroutine check0(a, n) bind( c, name="check0" ) !.. argument list real(kind=c_double), intent(inout) :: a(0:999) integer(kind=c_int), intent(inout) :: n(0:999) a = 3.14159_c_double n = 999_c_int return end subroutine check0 end module m
VB.NET code:
Imports System.Collections.Generic Imports System.Text Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices Namespace Fortran Public Class Testdll Public Const N As Integer = 1000 <DllImport("TESTDLL.DLL", CallingConvention := CallingConvention.Cdecl)> _ Friend Shared Sub check1(ByRef a As Single, ByRef n As Integer) End Sub <DllImport("TESTDLL.DLL", CallingConvention := CallingConvention.Cdecl)> _ Friend Shared Sub check0(<MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPArray, SizeConst := N)> a As Double(), <MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPArray, SizeConst := N)> n__1 As Integer()) End Sub End Class End Namespace
Imports System.IO Imports System.Text Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices Namespace Fortran NotInheritable Class TestDotNetClass Private Sub New() End Sub Private Shared Sub Main() Dim a As Single Dim n As Integer Dim a_arr As Double() Dim n_arr As Integer() ' Write header Console.WriteLine("*** Test Fortran Interop using VB ***" + vbLf) Console.WriteLine(vbLf & vbLf) Try a = 0F n = 1 Testdll.check1(a, n) Console.WriteLine(" a = " + a.ToString("###0.0#") + ", n = " + n.ToString("###0")) a_arr = New Double(Testdll.N - 1) {} n_arr = New Integer(Testdll.N - 1) {} For i As Integer = 0 To Testdll.N - 1 a_arr(i) = 0.0 n_arr(i) = 0 Next Testdll.check0(a_arr, n_arr) Console.WriteLine(" a_arr = " + a_arr(0).ToString() + ", n = " + n_arr(0).ToString()) Catch ex As Exception Console.WriteLine(ex.Message) Finally Console.WriteLine("Press any key to continue..") Console.ReadKey() End Try End Sub End Class End Namespace
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Earlier message deleted. Not sure what could cause the crash, perhaps stdcall is causing some issues?
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Hi FortranFan !
It works on x86 systems, therefore why stdcall would be performed differently on x64 systems?
Dimitri
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dfousekcres.gr wrote:
Hi FortranFan !
It works on x86 systems, therefore why stdcall would be performed differently on x64 systems?
Dimitri
Dimitri,
With C calling convention and standard C interoperability features in Fortran, both x86 and x64 seem to work as shown below. Perhaps you can take this and adapt it for your needs. I've long left stdcall behind and can't recall many of the details, but I thought it was largely irrelevant for x64 systems - so you may want to investigate on MSDN.com. But then I don't know if the code below would work with VBA, You can try it out and report back here.
By the way, are you really interested in passing fixed size arrays across? A better option might be to have assumed size arrays on Fortran side with an additional parameter for the size and on the .NET side, just pass arrays by reference along with the size parameter.
Good luck,
Fortran code:
module m use, intrinsic :: iso_c_binding, only : c_int, c_double, c_float implicit none private public :: check1 public :: check0 contains subroutine check1(a, n) bind( c, name="check1" ) !.. argument list real(kind=c_float), intent(inout) :: a integer(kind=c_int), intent(inout) :: n a = a + 1.0_c_float n = n - 1_c_int return end subroutine check1 subroutine check0(a, n) bind( c, name="check0" ) !.. argument list real(kind=c_double), intent(inout) :: a(0:999) integer(kind=c_int), intent(inout) :: n(0:999) a = 3.14159_c_double n = 999_c_int return end subroutine check0 end module m
VB.NET code:
Imports System.Collections.Generic Imports System.Text Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices Namespace Fortran Public Class Testdll Public Const N As Integer = 1000 <DllImport("TESTDLL.DLL", CallingConvention := CallingConvention.Cdecl)> _ Friend Shared Sub check1(ByRef a As Single, ByRef n As Integer) End Sub <DllImport("TESTDLL.DLL", CallingConvention := CallingConvention.Cdecl)> _ Friend Shared Sub check0(<MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPArray, SizeConst := N)> a As Double(), <MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPArray, SizeConst := N)> n__1 As Integer()) End Sub End Class End Namespace
Imports System.IO Imports System.Text Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices Namespace Fortran NotInheritable Class TestDotNetClass Private Sub New() End Sub Private Shared Sub Main() Dim a As Single Dim n As Integer Dim a_arr As Double() Dim n_arr As Integer() ' Write header Console.WriteLine("*** Test Fortran Interop using VB ***" + vbLf) Console.WriteLine(vbLf & vbLf) Try a = 0F n = 1 Testdll.check1(a, n) Console.WriteLine(" a = " + a.ToString("###0.0#") + ", n = " + n.ToString("###0")) a_arr = New Double(Testdll.N - 1) {} n_arr = New Integer(Testdll.N - 1) {} For i As Integer = 0 To Testdll.N - 1 a_arr(i) = 0.0 n_arr(i) = 0 Next Testdll.check0(a_arr, n_arr) Console.WriteLine(" a_arr = " + a_arr(0).ToString() + ", n = " + n_arr(0).ToString()) Catch ex As Exception Console.WriteLine(ex.Message) Finally Console.WriteLine("Press any key to continue..") Console.ReadKey() End Try End Sub End Class End Namespace
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Hi FortranFan,
The solution that you proposed (thanks for that!) works fine in principle.
I say "in principle" because it implies: i) filling all the numbers in my entire fortran code with the _c_float attribute:
1 |
a = a + 1.0_c_float |
2 |
n = n - 1_c_int |
and ii) it works with 1D arrays, but 2D arrays are of course returned in row-order, instead of, column-order.
Meanwhile the same VBA7 program (x64) works just fine without _c_float and _c_int attributes in the fortran side and with 2D arrays.
What is the secret of the Excel Microsoft VBA?
Kind regards,
Dimitri
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