[SDL] OneFile.exe

Koshmaar koshmaar at poczta.onet.pl
Sat Mar 18 03:42:09 PST 2006



> Hi there,
>   I am develloping my software on many computers and will need to save
> space a lot.  I have a good number of projects running, each of them
> has all those DLLs in their directories.  On most of the PCs on which
> I work I cannot install those DLLs in the system folder.  And I still
> need to save space.  I was wondering if it was possible to install
> those DLL in a defined directory and tell my file exe to look there
> (ie: "../DLLs/SDL.dll").  This way I would be left with only my dev
> files in my working directory.

If you could dynamically load DLLs, then it's a piece of cake. 
Otherwise, I don't know if it's possible.


> 
>   And another thing I was wondering, is the ability to merge those
> DLLs with my file.exe.  I believe this may be against the license from
> SDL, but I believe if it is done in a way that somebody can actually
> upgrade them, by placing them in the directory...  here's a more
> graphical example of what I mean:
 > ...
> Is there any way this can be acheived? I'm not good with windows and I
> have no idea what can be done...

You could use existing programs, ie. http://www.molebox.com/.




Koshmaar




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