just single dll per project?

Virion · Post by **Virion** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 9:45 am

Just wondering, let's say I am doing a project; I uses Irrlicht, IrrKlang, IrrNet etc. Is it possible I can make one single dll which contains all the things from those 3 seperated dlls? And I don't need the 3 dlls anymore just one dll in my project directory.

JP · Post by JP » Sun Aug 26, 2007 5:18 pm

I guess you'd have to get the sources of each engine and compile them all into one dll yourself, shouldn't be too hard. I don't believe there's anyway to compile dlls together without using the original source, though i could be wrong.

bitplane · Post by **bitplane** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 3:20 pm

Compile as static libraries and you won't have any DLLs to worry about, they'll be compiled into your exe.
irrKlang is available as a static library if you buy the pro version (65€).

Ico · Post by **Ico** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 5:10 pm

JP wrote:I guess you'd have to get the sources of each engine and compile them all into one dll yourself, shouldn't be too hard. I don't believe there's anyway to compile dlls together without using the original source, though i could be wrong.

There are programs to "pack" dll files into the executables later on - at least for VB6 I've seen some. Don't know how they work (changing import table to point to the executable file itself?), but think it's more work than just recompiling your own static/dynamic library.

rogerborg · Post by **rogerborg** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 4:45 pm

I haven't tried it, but this looks like it might be able to create a .lib from a .dll