Grouping DLL's for use in Executable

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Published on 2010-03-05T15:39:23Z Indexed on 2010/03/13 22:45 UTC
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Is there a way to group a bunch of DLL's and still use them at run time (not zipped up). Sorry this question sounds terse and stupid, but I'm not sure what more to ask.

I'll explain the situation though:

We've had two standalone Windows Applications and now one of our Applications has swelled to such ungainly proportions that the other application cannot run outside of the scope of the first app. We want to maintain some of the encapsulation we had while letting the smaller program in on some of the bigger program's features.

There is no problem in running the application, other than we don't want to send out all the 20-30 DLL's that the smaller project has.

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