Loading a function from a DLL from C

I was doing one of the nastiest task ever in the last few weeks: call a function from a DLL written in C++ from native C code. Here's how to do it with latest MinGW.

The DLL contains a function, named Test, returning an int, and have one single int parameter and - how suprising - returns an int as status.

dllhandler.h

#ifndef DLLHANDLER_C_
#define DLLHANDLER_C_

#include <windows.h>
#include <winbase.h>
#include <windef.h>
#include <stdio.h>

typedef int (*TestFunc)(int);

int loadDLL( void );

#endif

dllhandler.c

#include "dllhandler.h"

int loadDLL( )
{
    int status = 0;
    TestFunc _TestFunc;
    HINSTANCE testLibrary = LoadLibrary("test.dll");

    if (testLibrary)
    {
        _TestFunc = (TestFunc)GetProcAddress(testLibrary, "Test");
        if (_TestFunc)
        {
            status = _TestFunc();
        }
        FreeLibrary(serialLibrary);
    }
    return status;
}

(Oh, by the way: this entry was written by Peter Molnar, and originally posted on petermolnar dot net.)