Changing Windows DLL load order? (load order, not search order)

Question

Say I have one executable: app.exe

I use 2 different 3rd party DLLs in this executable: foo.dll bar.dll and the Application must l

Answer 1

If you don't link the import library (foo.lib & bar.lib), then the loader will not automatically load the DLLs upon startup and you can call LoadLibrary() whenever you want.

On a side note, I wrote a handy little library for encapsulating loading DLLs on the fly without having to deal with LoadLibrary/GetProcAddress directly. You can read about it here.