kastro662
19th September 2005 19:44 UTC

DLLs
I don't know how much this is a NSIS question and how much is a DLL question. I am writing a suite of applications that share some dll files.

Programs will be installed to:

$PROGRAMFILES\Suite Name\Program1
$PROGRAMFILES\Suite Name\Program2
$PROGRAMFILES\Suite Name\Program3
etc

If I copy the DLL files to each of those directories, it works. But obviouslly it would be better just to have one copy of the common dlls.

I don't know how to go about this... I don't know if I need to use RegDll or copy them to $PROGRAMFILES\Suite Name\Common and somehow reference that or copy them to $SYSDIR

Any help?

Thanks,
Jason

kichik
20th September 2005 18:44 UTC

The programs that use those DLLs need to adjust themselves to get the DLL from the common directory. If you didn't write these programs, you can put the DLL in $SYSDIR and hope the path to the DLLs are not hard coded in the programs. Note that this is not the recommended solution, but rather a fallback option.