Re: [BLACKBOX] Packing a dll file into an exe file

From: [at]} <Alexander>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:10:33 +0700

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Hello!

DGD> The problem is in the packing of a dll (in this case FreeImage.dll).
DGD> If I put the dll into C:\WINDOWS\system the loader finds it.
DGD> But if I leave the dll in the BlackBox root directory it doesn't
DGD> (when the exe is running from the desktop).
DGD> What is the syntax for packing a dll such that the file is really
DGD> in the .exe and is self contained so that on any system it will
DGD> execute directly whether or not FreeImage.dll is on that
DGD> system (but in the .exe file)?

  Sorry, Doug, but if you use a DLL, you use a DLL, not just extract a
  piece of code from it and paste into your executable. You should
  distribute the DLL with your application.

  You can put DLL anywhere in the PATH (e.g. Windows,
  Windows\System32, etc.) or keep it with your .exe.

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 Alexander

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