DLL dependency question / SetDLLDirectory

Question

I have the following situation and can\'t come up with any good solution.

I have a C++ application (app.exe) installed in C:\\ProgFiles\\MyApp. It needs a bunch of

Answer 1

one solution to the problem would be use SetDllDirectory function; but, it needs to be first thing you execute on your program (which is hard to do), my solution is to use third party program to set dll directory and then invoke your EXE file as a new process:

this is third party which will be a EXE file:

#include 

SetDllDirectory(_T(".dll location"));   

STARTUPINFOW siStartupInfo;
PROCESS_INFORMATION piProcessInfo;
memset(&siStartupInfo, 0, sizeof(siStartupInfo));
memset(&piProcessInfo, 0, sizeof(piProcessInfo));
siStartupInfo.cb = sizeof(siStartupInfo);

if (CreateProcessW(L".exe location",NULL, NULL, NULL, FALSE,
    0, NULL, NULL,
    &siStartupInfo, &piProcessInfo))
{
    /* This line waits for the process to finish. */
    /* You can omit it to keep going whilst the other process runs */
    //dwExitCode = WaitForSingleObject(piProcessInfo.hProcess, (SecondsToWait * 1000));
}
else
{
    /* CreateProcess failed */
    //iReturnVal = GetLastError();
}
return 0;