Changing Windows DLL load order? (load order, not search order)

Question

Say I have one executable: app.exe

I use 2 different 3rd party DLLs in this executable: foo.dll bar.dll and the Application must l

Answer 1

Just add foo.dll to the import table of bar.dll, the OS loader will handle the rest.

You should be able to do this without the source code for bar.dll, not sure if the editbin tool has such an option, but this is a fairly trivial edit to the PE file.

You might instead be able to use the registry setting that preloads DLLs, but I wouldn't do that, you don't want foo.dll getting loaded into other processes that don't need it.