Windows DLLs and path

[Scott Kane]

From: "Bill Vlahos" <bvlahos at mac.com>

> Is there a way to tell the standalone they are in a subfolder?

Possibly in Rev - but I've not tried it.  However...  It's normal practice 
to place them in the standalone (executable) directory.  Placing them in the 
path can cause dll hell in that another application uses a dll of the same 
name or even a newer or older dll that your app can not handle.  So avoid 
the path for this stuff.  In terms of the dll being in the same folder as 
the standalone (executable) why not do something like this (providing you're 
not installing into c:\Program Files which will cause problems in Vista):

Put you dll into your standalone as a binary custom property.  When the app 
executes unpack it to a file (.dll) and when your program exits delete the 
dll.  This is pretty much what happens with some static linking programs 
like C++, Delphi, VB etc.  You'd have to be sure to free the dll before 
deletion.

Scott Kane
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