Safe to delete dll files?

RetroArch Windows devices
#1

I updated to 1.7.8 and to be sure i also downloaded the redist files.

It appears though, that i have a few older dll files in the main RA folder that aren’t a part of the latest redist folder. These are:

libbluray-1.dll

libidn-11.dll

liborc-0.4-0.dll

libschroedinger-1.0-0.dll

libwebp-6.dll

libwebpmux-2.dll

libx264-148.dll

All of these seem to be pretty old files, with a “modified” date of 23/1/2018

I removed these from the folder to see if RA works and it seems it does. Though im not sure if there’s going to be an issue down the road.

It’s probably not going to hurt if i keep the files in there, but i’m trying to clean up the setup a bit.

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#2

I just clear out all the existing .dll files and replace them with the ones in redist.7z when they need to be updated. Never had a problem.