[SOLVED]Compile to exe with 3rd party DLLs

[crouzilles]

Hi all.

Is it possible to compile a .au3 script which uses a DLL and have the resulting exe file contain the DLL or do I have to use the FileInstall call which if I understand this correctly, will include the dll inside the exe but will make a copy of it when the exe is ran and then use it?

Thank you

Crouzilles

Edited January 21, 2011 by crouzilles

[Richard Robertson]

You need to FileInstall it. A safe place to put it would be the @TempDir directory.

FileInstall(".\mydll.dll", @TempDir & "\mydll.dll", 1)
Dim $handle = DllOpen(@TempDir & "\mydll.dll")

[crouzilles]

You need to FileInstall it. A safe place to put it would be the @TempDir directory.

FileInstall(".\mydll.dll", @TempDir & "\mydll.dll", 1)
Dim $handle = DllOpen(@TempDir & "\mydll.dll")

Thanks Richard. The extra info regarding the @TempDir is very much appreciated.

Regards

Crouzilles

[Zedna]

You can embed DLL into EXE and call its functions directly from memory.

Look here: