Recently I opened a .dll file produced by Visual Studio 9 while compiling a native C++ DLL project and was surprised to see the “This program cannot be run in DOS mode” text near the beginning.
Why have this text in .dll files?
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Recently I opened a .dll file produced by Visual Studio 9 while compiling a native C++ DLL project and was surprised to see the “This program cannot be run in DOS mode” text near the beginning.
Why have this text in .dll files?
A dll is very much like an executable with a different extension. The text you saw is part of the ‘standard’ executable header on windows. It is (was) used to gracefully abort the attempt to run a windows executable from DOS.