How do I rename a DLL but still allow the EXE to find it?

Question

We have a DLL which is produced in house, and for which we have the associated static LIB of stubs.

We also have an EXE which uses this DLL using the simple method o

Answer 1

I created a little python script to rename native dlls properly. It generates a new lib file for you to use in project linking in MSVC.

https://github.com/cmberryau/rename_dll/blob/master/rename_dll.py.

You'll need to use the developer command prompt for it to work of course.