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"JohnnyB" <Johnnyb@_nospam_uni.de> wrote in message
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> Hi,
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> is there a way to build a dll into a exe with CBuilder 6?

Do you mean so that the DLL does not have to be distributed with the EXE?
If so, there several possible answers: no, sort of, and maybe yes.

No...a DLL cannot be "built into" an EXE.  In fact, one primary impetus for
DLL's in the first place was to separate them from the applications that use
them.

Sort of...if you have the source code for the DLL, then you could build a
static library and include that in the EXE instead, or just include the
source in your EXE directly.

Maybe yes...if you are willing to explicitly load the DLL (using
LoadLibrary(), as opposed to implicitly loading it via an import library),
you could perhaps include the DLL in your EXE as a binary resource and then
extract and load the DLL at runtime.

Does that answer your question?

- Dennis