Delay Loading DLLs

c++ windows visual-studio dll delayed-execution
Zaid Amir picture Zaid Amir · Sep 7, 2009 · Viewed 19.5k times · Source

I am in desperate need of help, I need to manage an application dependency in Visual Studio. The application links to a DLL only on a specific version of windows, lets say Windows 7. and on other environments, the DLL should not be loaded. How will I be able to achieve that using DLL Delay Loading as this topic is completely new to me and there isn't any good references online for this particular matter.

Regards

Answer

xtofl picture xtofl · Sep 7, 2009

Your project can specify that a dll it depends upon should but be loaded when needed, by specifying it in the Linker/Input/Delay Loaded DLLs field. This setting can be different for different build configurations.

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