Problems with executables exporting symbols

Hello there,

basically I do something simple....
I build an executable and I ask it to export symbols, just like a dll. Then the lib generated is used to build a dll.
At runtime, the executable will do a LoadLibrary on the dll generated. This works fine on Windows Desktop, or Symbian for example.

When I tried that in eVC4 a few years ago, it didn't work. All the compiling and linking gave no problem at all, everything fine. However at run time, the LoadLibrary returned a NULL pointer.

The only workaround I found was to split my executable in a very small executable and a big dll. Then, building the plugin dll, linking to a dll, not an executable, it could be retrieved by the LoadLibrary.

Having switched to Visual Studio 2005, I gave it a try, and it's still the same problem. Instead of having an executable and a plug in dll, I have an executable and a dll, plus the plugin dll.

Is there any reason it doesn't work in Win CE ?