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Re: statically linking dll

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Subject: Re: statically linking dll
From: Chris Little <cslittle at mac dot com>
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 08:47:50 -0400
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Thread-topic: statically linking dll
on 4/5/06 2:06 PM, Alexander Cohen at alexander dot cohen at coficio dot com 
wrote:

> Does anyone have any pointers on how can get a windows dll to be
> statically linked into a windows plugin that i'm building with cw 9
> (latest version). I really don't want users to have to install the
> dll with their app if they want to use the plugin.

You can't directly.  You would have to do what RB does for the plugin DLL's
and embed the DLL as a BLOB and exact it to some user writeable folder and
then use it.  The download of that is you would have to weak-link to all of
the DLL functions.

Chris


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