I'm protecting my software from piracy.
Two approaches:

OPTION A: Modify exe to require version.dll
✅ Stronger protection
❌ Complex to implement

OPTION B: Use launcher.exe wrapper
✅ Simple & fast
❌ Customer could skip it

Option 1 is very hard, is there another solution?

Option 2 not useful

Thanks

Both options are useless.

c/c++ protection from the more successful people in the industry and internet callback.

there is no other way.

splitting files just move the problem from one file to another one.

and if you are not doing plugins or really specific programming things with hardware, you should ship nothing to anyone, you should have a internet service via browser.