Win32 api call Error GetShortPathName in f#

Question

I can get this code to run in the interactive environment but it crashes when I run the code from debugger or from the .exe file

Forgot the error: FatalExecutionEngineError was detected! The runtime has encountered a fatal error. The address of the error was at 0x6c9781b0, on thread 0x1104. The error code is 0xc0000005. This error may be a bug in the CLR or in the unsafe or non-verifiable portions of user code. Common sources of this bug include user marshaling errors for COM-interop or PInvoke, which may corrupt the stack.

Using .net 4.5

open System.IO
open System.Runtime.InteropServices
open System.Text

[<DllImport("kernel32.dll",CharSet = CharSet.Auto, SetLastError=true)>]
extern uint32 GetShortPathName(
    [<MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPWStr)>] string longpath, 
    [<MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPWStr)>] StringBuilder shortpath, 
    [<MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.U4)>] uint32  item)

let MakeShortName(longPath : string) =
    let sb =  StringBuilder()
    let currPath = longPath
    let item = 1024u

   // let blah = ""
    //win32 assigns shortPath
    let blah32 = GetShortPathName(currPath, sb, item)

    sb.ToString()

[<EntryPoint>]
let main argv = 

    let path = @"C:\dev\shortName\shortName"
    let shorty = MakeShortName path
    printfn "%s" shorty 
    let x = System.Console.ReadKey()

    0

Interactive env

---

$ (me alt+entering the above two functions)

val GetShortPathName : string * StringBuilder * uint32 -> uint32 val MakeShortName : string -> string

$ MakeShortName @"C:\dev\shortName\shortName";; val it : string = "C:\dev\SHORTN~1\SHORTN~1"

Answer 1

Fixed it.

I just suck @ win 32

Removed marshals

See solution:

open System.IO
open System.Runtime.InteropServices
open System.Text

[<DllImport("kernel32.dll",CharSet = CharSet.Auto, SetLastError=true)>]
extern int GetShortPathName(
    string longpath, 
    StringBuilder shortpath, 
    int  item)

let MakeShortName(longPath : string) =
    let sb =  StringBuilder()
    let currPath = longPath
    let item = 1024

   // let blah = ""
//win32 assigns shortPath
    let blah32 = GetShortPathName(currPath, sb, item)

    sb.ToString()

[<EntryPoint>]
let main argv = 

let path = @"C:\dev\shortName\shortName"
let shorty = MakeShortName path
printfn "%s" shorty 
let x = System.Console.ReadKey()

0