Storing libraries in a particular folder

[Ketan Shah]

I am making a Qt Gui C++ application using shared libraries for windows...
my question is when I am including dlls in my application, I want to store the dlls in a particular folder(bin folder) and the executable is out of that folder.
is this possible??
and if possible what changes I should make in the .pro file, so that when executing the executable it can find the respective dlls.
please reply..

Thanks in advance,
Ketan Shah.

[soroush]

I didn't do this before but I think you should be able to load libraries at runtime using "QLibrary":http://doc.qt.nokia.com/latest/qlibrary.html

Also try :
@
QStringList path = QCoreApplication::libraryPaths();
path.append(qApp->applicationDirPath()+"\bin");
QCoreApplication::setLibraryPaths(path);
@

Where bin folder is where you put dlls (inside application install directory).

[ZapB]

Why not put the exe in the bin dir along with the dll's? That way no changes are needed to environment.

[Ketan Shah]

but if possible i dont want to keep the dlls and exe together...
is there any proper way to do that...

[ZapB]

In that case you need to tell the system where to find your dll's. That is you need to somehow alter the %PATH% environment variable. You could do this in a simple wrapper script that launches the real application or a compiled stub application. You may even be able to do it in a windows shortcut (I can't recall off the top of my head).