In computing, DLL Hell is a term for the complications which arise when one works with dynamic-link libraries (DLLs) used with Microsoft Windows operating systems, particularly legacy 16-bit editions, which all run in a single memory space.
DLL Hell can manifest itself in many different ways wherein applications neither launch nor work correctly.
DLL Hell is the Windows ecosystem-specific form of the general concept dependency hell.
== Problems ==
DLLs are Microsoft's implementation of shared libraries. Shared libraries allow common code to be bundled into a wrapper, the DLL, and used by...