In visual studio '13 how do I make it so I can include dll files in a relative sub folder of my exe?

Question

在C＃中，我知道有一种方法可以编辑汇编配置文件或类似的文件，但是对于C ++，我不知道如何创建它，而不是将我的所有dll放在根目录中，例如/ libs或/ bin /文件夹，我的exe将在其中查找dll文件？

Answer 1

Your EXE doesn't look for DLL files. That means it doesn't matter whether you're using C++ or C#. Visual Studio is even less relevant as it's not even present when your EXE runs.

Windows looks for DLLs. In your C# example, Windows uses the assembly manifest to guide the search. In your C++ example, you didn't add one, so Windows uses just the default paths. The solution is thus obvious: use a similar manifest.

Answer 2

If you're loading the DLL at runtime you can simply write hDll = LoadLibrary("subFolder\\\\test.dll"); . At first Windows looks for the DLL in the directory your program is located. Therefore test.dll will be found in app_dir/subFolder/test.dll (app_dir = path of executable). Note that this also works if the current directory is different to app_dir .

Look at MSDN for more information about DLL searching .