How to get Windows to load DLLs that are not in PATH, etc.

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From: Jin Tonic Li
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 18:21

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I have some custom DLLs that are in c:\myapp, which is not in the PATH variable.
I want Windows to auto load these DLL(s) for me whenever a function in it(them)
is called(as oppose to explicitly load them myself).

However, as I understand it, Windows will only look for DLLs in the current dir,
windows dir, windows system dir and any dir that is on the PATH.  If a user
invokes programs from c:\myapp, everything is fine.  Otherwise, Windows will
complain that it cannot find the DLLs.

Is there a way to instruct Windows to look for DLLs in a user-supplied dir?
Any other method to get around this problem?(aside from putting all my custom
DLLs in windows system dir)

Thanks in advance,

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  		    Jin Li		      >>    Gin & Tonic mix well
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From: jinli@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Jin Tonic Li)
Subject: How to get Windows to load DLLs that are not in PATH, etc.
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