Plugin DLLs that depend on other DLLs

Question

I am writing a DLL to plug into another (3rd party) application. The DLL will need to depend on another set of DLLs (for license reasons I cannot link statically).

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Answer 1

Another option is to modify the PATH variable. Have a batch file for launching the main app, and set the PATH=%PATH%;%~dp0. This ensures a minimal footprint, with no additional traces left in the system after running.

Answer 2

I can think of 3 ways.

1. put the dlls in the same folder as your application (you cannot do this?)
2. Use runtime linking. LoadLibrary() and GetProcAddress()
3. Use a manifest http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa374182(VS.85).aspx

But if the dll isn't in the same folder as the .exe, how are you going to know where it is? forget Windows not knowing, how do you know?

Answer 3

you can specify the path of dll as the parameter of LoadLibrary().