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MelMed
MelMed

Reputation: 1762

APP and DLL relying on some files: on which directory?

I am having some dll and some libraries which must be included in my Visual Studio application.

According to you, a part of the path C:\Windows where do I have include them to be recognised by the app, and meantime, by the dll?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 48

Answers (1)

Yury Schkatula
Yury Schkatula

Reputation: 5369

Not good to place something into c:\Windows unless you really have to (drivers and other low-level staff).

  • If your product is single standalone app, you may place all the necessary files into the same folder
  • If you plan to have several products (or at least several versions of the same app installed simultaneously), you may be interested in C:\Program Files\Common Files

P.S. And yeah, don't forget to use Win API functions to resolve special directory names (instead of hardcoded c:\windows etc)

Upvotes: 4

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