Not the usual DLL Hell

I’ve worked on a number of projects across a range of trading desks for many different clients, but the latest project is causing some pain with DLL Hell. This is not the usual DLL Hell but the DLL Hell generated from 70 DLL’s required to run any EXE. The problem with 70 DLL’s are that as soon as you change a piece of code you incur pain in building, compiling and linking some or all of the 70 C++ DLL’s just to run a test application. Sometimes the pain is intensified when breakpoints are not hit in the debugger, meaning a DLL/PDB is out of sync. Net out, I think 70 DLL’s is a little over the top for a process.

~ by mdavey on March 28, 2006.