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- From: jinli@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Jin Tonic Li)
- Subject: How to get Windows to load DLLs that are not in PATH, etc.
- Message-ID: <By2wC2.1s7@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
- Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 18:21:37 GMT
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- I have some custom DLLs that are in c:\myapp, which is not in the PATH variable.
- I want Windows to auto load these DLL(s) for me whenever a function in it(them)
- is called(as oppose to explicitly load them myself).
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- However, as I understand it, Windows will only look for DLLs in the current dir,
- windows dir, windows system dir and any dir that is on the PATH. If a user
- invokes programs from c:\myapp, everything is fine. Otherwise, Windows will
- complain that it cannot find the DLLs.
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- Is there a way to instruct Windows to look for DLLs in a user-supplied dir?
- Any other method to get around this problem?(aside from putting all my custom
- DLLs in windows system dir)
-
- Thanks in advance,
-
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