FixPath is rpath for Windows executables

fixPath is a tool to modify the path to a certain DLLs (Dynamic Shared Objects) for Microsoft Windows Executables by rewriting parts of the executable’s PE header, when the .fixPath section is present and indicates support for such rewrite, but without having to realign the PE headers. In concept, it is similar to patchelf but instead of changing search paths, fixPath hard-codes each DLL to a particular filepath.

see fixPath project page:

    https://github.com/nixcloud/fixPath

release with prebuilt fixPath.exe tool + test program:

    https://github.com/nixcloud/fixPath/releases/tag/v0.1.0

i'd love to get in contact with microsoft research about this, in particular with the MSVC compiler/linker team.

best, joachim