Scott Nichols Below is code for a C based Tcl extension GUID generator. The reason I wrote it was a customer of mine required a GUID be generated and sent with each SOAP transaction. The C code below is using two dependent libs: tclstub83.lib and rpcrt4.lib. Rpcrt4.lib is part of the Windows OS, and should come with Visual Studio or .Net. The source code is so short that I went ahead and posted both C source files below. The sources can be compiled into a Tcl library extension (DLL) for all Windows platforms.
TclGUID.h:
/* * TclGUID.h v1.0 12-11-2003 Scott Nichols * */ /* TCL Function prototype declarations */ #ifndef TclGUID_H #define TclGUID_H #define USE_NON_CONST #define TCL_USE_STUBS #include <tcl.h> #include "StdAfx.h" extern "C" { __declspec(dllexport) int Tclguid_Init(Tcl_Interp* interp); } static int GetGUID_ObjCmd(ClientData clientData, Tcl_Interp *interp, int objc, Tcl_Obj *CONST objv[]); #endif
TclGUID.cpp:
/* * TclGUID.cpp, v1.0 12/11/2003, Scott J. Nichols * [email protected] * * The GetGUID Tcl method returns a 128 bit unique identifier * to the Tcl interpreter. Microsoft calls it a globally unique identifier (GUID). * The application I am using it for is the transaction ID for SOAP messages. This was a customer * requirement of mine. * */ #include "TclGUID.h" static int GetGUID_ObjCmd(ClientData clientData, Tcl_Interp *interp, int objc, Tcl_Obj *CONST objv[]) { GUID guid = GUID_NULL; // create random GUID ::CoCreateGuid(&guid); // check for failure if (guid == GUID_NULL) { Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_NewStringObj((const char *)"Unable to create GUID.", -1)); return TCL_ERROR; } BYTE * str; UuidToString((UUID*)&guid, &str); Tcl_UtfToUpper((char *)str); // Return the GUID to the Tcl Interpreter Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_NewStringObj((const char *)str, -1)); RpcStringFree(&str); return TCL_OK; } /* Main Routine in the TCL Extension DLL */ int Tclguid_Init(Tcl_Interp *interp) { #if TCL_MAJOR_VERSION == 8 && TCL_MINOR_VERSION >= 1 // Does the TCL interpreter support version 8.3 of TCL? if (Tcl_InitStubs(interp,"8.3",0) == NULL) return TCL_ERROR; #endif Tcl_CreateObjCommand(interp, "GetGUID", GetGUID_ObjCmd, (ClientData) NULL, (Tcl_CmdDeleteProc *) NULL); return Tcl_PkgProvide(interp,"TclGUID","1.0"); }
Each time the GetGUID method is called from Tcl a different 128 bit number is returned that looks similar to this: DE4ED408-5200-46E5-8AD1-EEF7351A7C07
PT: 8-July-2004: There is now a pure-Tcl uuid package in tcllib
The TWAPI package also includes commands for GUID and LUID generation using the native Win32 API