I managed to create a program in C / Visual Studio 2010, 2017. And now I have to embed a DLL (B.dll) inside of another DLL (A.dll).

I succeed in executing another program (C.exe) that uses A.dll. But I don't know how to embed a DLL into a DLL.

Is it possible ? If it is possible, what should I do?

I have solutions for A.dll, B.dll, C.exe.

CodePudding user response：

If you mean linking by 'embed', You can use the same .lib file for your B.dll to link with A.dll as you did with C.exe.

CodePudding user response：

If you truly want to embed B.dll inside of A.dll, you can define B.dll as a resource of A.dll via an .rc script in A.dll's project. Then you can use B.dll at runtime by first using (Find|Load|Lock)Resource() to access the bytes for B.dll's resource and writing them to a tempory file using (Create|Write)File() before then loading that file with LoadLibrary().