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I notice if I manually install plugins in PM portable by copying the respective DLLs to <PMdirectory>/Lib/Mozilla/Plugins they do get detected generally.

But pasting there a *shortcut* to an actual DLL file located elsewhere doesn't work, it doesn't get detected at all.

Is this expected?
Could there be a way to make this work?

Thanks.

Instead of a shortcut, how about a hardlink?

freefrog wrote: ↑

2019-07-25, 17:00

Is this expected?

Yes. You need to have the actual file there.

So it's really not possible to use any type of reference links there?

Symbolic Links SHOULD do the job but a windows shortcut? Nah dood.

therube suggested a HardLink. Windows can do this.

IIRC there's a junction tool in Sysinternals for creating a junction, that's similar to a symbolic link on Windows. I've used it a couple of times, could be worth trying out here.

Filesystem links may or may not work; they are finicky when it comes to dealing with libraries/dlls and function calls into them.
What exactly is the problem copying a dll or two into your portable (and keeping it portable that way...)? Why do you want to link in the first place?