Question about linking in VS 2008.

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You could go through the trouble of linking the source staticaly... or
>> you could embedd the DLL inside the EXE as a binary resource
which is probably *much* easier....

bool SaveResourceFile(int res_id, const wchar_t *pathname)
{
    HMODULE hmod = GetModuleHandle(0);
    HRSRC hr = FindResource(hmod, MAKEINTRESOURCE(res_id), RT_RCDATA);
    if (!hr)
    {
        LogMessage(L"FindResource(%d) failed, le = %u", res_id, GetLastError());
        return false;
    }//if

    DWORD hrsz = SizeofResource(hmod, hr);
    if (!hrsz)
    {
        LogMessage(L"SizeofResource() failed, le = %u", GetLastError());
        return false;
    }//if

    HGLOBAL hg = LoadResource(hmod, hr);
    if (!hg)
    {
        LogMessage(L"LoadResource() failed, le = %u", GetLastError());
        return false;
    }//if

    void *pfile = LockResource(hg);
    if (!pfile)
    {
        LogMessage(L"LockResource() failed, le = %u", GetLastError());
        return false;
    }//if

    FILE *f = _wfopen(pathname, L"wb");
    if (!f)
    {
        LogMessage(L"Failed to open %s for writting, le = %u", 
                   pathname, GetLastError());
        return false;
    }//if

    bool res = (fwrite(pfile, hrsz, 1, f) == 1);
    fclose(f);

    if (!res)
    {
        LogMessage(L"Failed to write resource data to file, le = %u", 
                   GetLastError());
    }//if

    return res;
}//SaveResourceFile

/*
In your RC file:
IDR_DLL RCDATA DISCARDABLE "pircbotcpp-mt.dll"
*/

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