I have a subfolder in my project, let's say "abc", and I want to load a DLL from this folder, let's call the DLL "def.dll".

Now when I try
#define PRAGMA_PLUGIN "abc\\def.dll"
it fails.
I added #define PRAGMA_PATH "abc" and it did not work on my laptop ("Can't load DLL" error).
But it works on my desktop pc. The folder structure is the same (copy/pasted the whole project), so I have no idea what is going on.

How am I supposed to include DLLs located in subfolders?
I'd like to keep them there as the subfolder cotnains stuff which is pretty much separated fromt he rest of the project and should remain updatable/replaceable without having to copy stuff around every time.

try another pair of slashes like "\\abc\\def.dll"

Wildly adding slashes certainly won't help. But you have forgotten the semicolon, which is required for many PRAGMAs.

PRAGMA_PATH is irrelevant for DLLs. It's also not relevant if the app runs on a desktop or laptop, but you might have different paths on both.

I tried with and without semicolons - no change.

Relative pathes are the same on both PCs.
Only on one system the root is c:\firoball\projects\acknex\ and on the other one it's e:\projects\acknex\

The only way to get this working stable is putting the DLLs directly into the work folder directly.

Is that a plugin DLL or a general DLL? PRAGMA_PLUGIN works for plugins only. General DLLs use the standard Windows DLL path convention.

Ok this probably is the problem. It's the newton.dll

I assume there is no easy fix besides setting pathes in Windows?

Maybe you could add a main.wdl with just one line:

PLUGINDIR = "..\\plugins"; // something like this

Regards,
Pegamode.

That was my first try, nope.

The plugin path is for engine plugins only.

Normal DLLs must be in windows\system32, or in the application folder. Windows does not support subfolders for DLLs.

I am receiving the same problem with the "fmod3Wrapper.dll", except it won't read in the work folder either. It works fine and loads on two of my computers, but not on the third. Have no idea why it is rejected/ignored by compiler on this other computer? As the setup on this other computer is quite similar. This of course kills the game as it has a bunch of empty protoypes without the .dll being loaded.