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Re:An alternative to shared libraries (2008) by stagger87 on Monday June 25, 2018 @07:51PM (#17396846)
I develop small to medium size Windows applications. It's much easier for me to simply put all the DLLs I need in the installer. Just copy everything into the installation directory. Since Windows looks in the immediate directory first, that eliminates most potential conflicts. There are some things you might install onto the system like C++ redistributables, but even recently I have just started copying those DLLs into the installation directory too. Most people like this because the application directory is fully standalone and can be copied around from PC to PC.
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Re:An alternative to shared libraries (2008) by _bxg1 on Monday June 25, 2018 @10:55PM (#17397573)
Which totally defeats the purpose of dll's, right? I'm not judging; this just seems like a pretty condemning argument against the practice as a whole
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Re:An alternative to shared libraries (2008) by sententia on Monday June 25, 2018 @11:45PM (#17397718)
It's not. DLLs also provide a way to share compiled code between programming languages that are not binary compatible.
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