Re: loading Lua DLLs from an archive file?

["Vyacheslav Egorov" <mister.aleph@...>]

Take a look at:

http://www.joachim-bauch.de/tutorials/load_dll_memory.html

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On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 1:35 AM, Eike Decker <eike@cube3d.de> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I want to bundle multiple Lua libraries in a single file (i.e. a ZIP file).
> Loading Lua files is not the problem but loading DLLs seems to be difficult...
> I tried looking how to load DLLs from memory or how to create a VFS but this
> seems to go nowhere.
> There exist applications (http://www.molebox.com/) that can include DLLs into a
> single exe and it is said that these applications load the DLLs from memory and
> not from the file system - so there seems to exist a solution... but I haven't
> been able to find it till now, or the solution must be quite complex.
> The alternative would be to leave the DLLs out and distribute the DLLs alongside
> with the exe - but I would prefer a solution to include all libraries into a
> single archive - without extracting these dlls to a temporary file.
> Of course I could also link the exe statically with the libraries, but I would
> prefer not to do this and could instead simply wrap the DLLs as they come...
>
> Probably not worth the extra work for the minor advantage of having a purely
> psychologically cleaner looking distribution, yet I am interested if and how
> this could be done - otherwise I'll simply put these DLLs alongside with the
> files. Any pointers would be welcome.
>
> Thanks
> Eike
>
>