Setting up a project dependancy

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Christopher

I made up a solution. I want to write a .dll and another project to test the
..dll
So far I have created the .dll project and the test .exe project in the same
solution.
I set the .dll project as a dependancy for the .exe project.

How do I provide settings for the .exe as to where the header and .dll are
and to link with them?

Thanx,
Chris
 
I set the .dll project as a dependancy for the .exe project.

Chris,

Won't that be the other way round - the EXE depends on the DLL?
How do I provide settings for the .exe as to where the header and .dll are
and to link with them?
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It's down to how you want to structure your directories.

If you've got a structure like this:

Root
EXE project
DLL project

Source files in your EXE project can include the DLL header by using:

#include "..\DLL project\theheader.h"

An alternative way of working if you're using Visual Source Safe is to
have the DLL headers shared by both projects so that the EXE has a
copy of the header file in its own folder.

VS2003 handles the LIB for you if you've created a dependency, so the
only other issue is how does your EXE find the DLL - usually for
testing purposes, I copy the DLL to the EXE's folder.

Dave
 
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