Re: Where to put dll's in a windows environment?

["Paulo Pinto" <paulo pinto altitude com>]

You have several available options:

1 - place them in the same folder as the
application binary;

2 - place them in any folder that you like
and add that folder to the PATH;

3 - place them in windows\system32.

I won't advise the last option. You might
break applications if there are already
some of the libraries installed. In that
case you will be overriding those libraries
and the new ones might not be compatible.

Hope this helps.

--
Paulo Pinto

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Egon Andersen" <ean ishoejby dk>
To: "gtk-list" <gtk-list gnome org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 9:46 AM
Subject: Where to put dll's in a windows environment?


> Hi,
> 
> I've been porting an application that used GTK from Linux to MSWindows 
> on which I use mingw as the C-compiler, and it works acceptable.
> But if I want to move the application to another machine without the 
> entire MSYS and MINGW setup, where do I put the required dll files (for 
> GTK and friends)?
> Are there any rules/guide-lines for that on MSWindows? I could imagine 
> x:/windows/system, but is that the correct place?
> (I admit that I know close to nothing about the MSWindows systems, so it 
> might be trivial.)
> I have a faint memory that someone posted something about this on this 
> list some time ago, but I haven't been able to find it again.
> 
> Best regards
> Egon Andersen
> 
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