SWI-Prolog -- win_add_dll

Documentation
- Reference manual
  - Built-in Predicates
    - Operating System Interaction
      - Windows-specific Operating System Interaction
        
        win_exec/2
        
        win_shell/3
        
        win_shell/2
        
        win_registry_get_value/3
        
        win_folder/2
        
        win_add_dll_directory/1
        
        win_add_dll_directory/2
        
        win_remove_dll_directory/1
- Packages

win_add_dll_directory(+AbsDir, -Cookie)

This predicate adds a directory to the search path for dependent DLL files. If the call is successful it unifies Cookie with a handle that must be passed to win_remove_dll_directory/1 to remove the directory from the search path. Error conditions:

This predicate is available in the Windows port of SWI-Prolog starting from 6.3.8/6.2.6.
This predicate fails if Windows does not yet support the underlying primitives. These are available in recently patched Windows 7 systems and later.
This predicate throws an acception if the provided path is invalid or the underlying Windows API returns an error.

If open_shared_object/2 is passed an absolute path to a DLL on a Windows installation that supports AddDllDirectory() and friends,^{129Windows 7
with up-to-date patches or Windows 8.} SWI-Prolog uses LoadLibraryEx() with the flags LOAD_LIBRARY_SEARCH_DLL_LOAD_DIR and LOAD_LIBRARY_SEARCH_DEFAULT_DIRS. In this scenario, directories from %PATH% and not searched. Additional directories can be added using win_add_dll_directory/2.