Re: loadLibrary

["Bill Woodson" <radman@usefulware.com>]

I thought registering was needed only for com/ActiveX dlls, I didn't know
you used it for standard.  I shall play with that then.

Thanks,
Bill

P.S.  I will also play with the path idea, thanks.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ralph" <titojermaine@yahoo.com>
To: "James Mitchell" <jmitchtx@telocity.com>; "List AJUG"
<ajug-members@ajug.org>
Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 12:32 PM
Subject: RE: loadLibrary


> You can use regsvr32 (this comes with Windows, and is used to register
> and unregister DLLs) to register the dll.  I can't guarantee that
> Java's System.loadLibrary call is just making a Win32 API LoadLibrary
> call, but if it is, and you only supply the dll name, it'll check (and
> it's been awhile, so don't quote me on this, but I believe this is the
> order) for a registered dll of that name first, then it'll look in the
> current working directory path, (at this point it may look n the
> System/System32 directory, but I can't remember if it does that or just
> assumes it's in your PATH environment variable), then it'll begin
> looking through the PATH environment variable.
>
> --- James Mitchell <jmitchtx@telocity.com> wrote:
> > You might try using the registry.  Although I am not sure how to do
> > it, I've
> > heard it can be done.
> >
> > James Mitchell
> > Software Engineer\Struts Evangelist
> > Struts-Atlanta, the "Open Minded Developer Network"
> > http://www.open-tools.org/struts-atlanta
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >   -----Original Message-----
> >   From: Bill Woodson [mailto:radman@usefulware.com]
> >   Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 12:18 PM
> >   To: List AJUG
> >   Subject: loadLibrary
> >
> >
> >   Hi All,
> >
> >   Is there a way to load a dll library from the application path
> > instead of
> > copying it to the system folder and calling the System.loadLibrary()
> > method?
> >
> >   Thanks,
> >   Bill
> >
> >
>
>
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