Dll question

[Ha555]

I would not like to distribute my dll as a separate file in the release of the tool I made
but my application needs it to run properly although it is sure to not be there as a necessity

So I wonder how I can merge the dll into my exe so it will be out as a complete whole single entity

Thanks a lot for any replies

[boudino]

What is the technology? It is .NET or C++ or something else? Generally speaking, your could link the library statically, or embed it to .exe as a resource.

[Ha555]

But how ? I have only the dll

[Star Beaver]

Hello, Ha555
I have a similar problem in this link http://www.codeguru.com/forum/showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=486140
Did you have a solution already ? Please help me
Thank you very much

[Ha555]

Hello, Ha555
I have a similar problem in this link http://www.codeguru.com/forum/showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=486140
Did you have a solution already ? Please help me
Thank you very much

You see it or not!
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It's his greed: he has a store of T shirts, coffee, he has multiple ways to publish his views, his books he wrote....That greedy!

[Ha555]

Oh well,
I have not resolved my own problem and as I can see in Find All Your Posts \
I am surprised as you too do something the same.

Let's close our eyes and make a wish that someone will help us out.


Someone please throw in one post to help 2 persons at the same time ?
Somebody please ?

[MrViggy]

Actually, boudino gave you two solutions to your problem:

1) If you have the source code, compile the DLL into a static library instead. Link your EXE with the static library.

2) If you do not have the source code, embed your DLL into your EXE as a resource. Then, before you start anything in your EXE, you write the DLL resource to disk, and load it from there.

Viggy

[Ha555]

thank you ******** me
1> I stated in n my OP that I loaded it inmy memory already. Why did he repeat it ? lenghthening the period ?
2> Ok I loaded it into memory

HINSTANCE hlib=::afxloadlib("hello.dll");
if(null=hlib){}
why is hlib always null ?


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[MrViggy]

Assuming you mean AfxLoadLibrary (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/d5fzd0ek.aspx). NULL means there was an error loading the library.

Viggy