Downloading DLL to RT target

I am very new (as in a few days!) to working with a LabVIEW realtime system. Apologies if the answer to my question seems obvious :-)
I have a project and have added to the target a VI which uses the Call Library Function Node.
This node accesses a DLL (which will read an ini file and then access another DLL).
I added the DLLs to the project, but I do not see that they are downloaded with the VI.
How do I download these DLLs? I am not discussing final deployment now, but during development.
How do I download the ini file?
How do I determine where to put these files? One DLL must be found by the Call Library function node. The INI file in the same directory as that DLL, and the third DLL can be anywhere but its path must be put into the ini file.
Thank you.
Batya
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Thank you, I'll try that, when I can figure out what you mean
OK, I'm exaggerating; I have a basic idea what you mean and just have to figure out what it means in practice.
BTW, I only have an eval version of the application builder (I have the full development system, not professional. Hey, they just upgraded me from basic!).
Is that going to be a problem when my eval runs out?
Now, how do I make sure that the dll will be in the right directory for the VI to find it when I run it in development?
(For anyone else out there, I'd love to know how do do this via MAX -- I looked in MAX but it seems to let you add/remove software packages and not your own files.)
Thank you very much.
Batya

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