# How can I create a generic ActorComponent?

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**Created:** [March 20, 2016, 5:51pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/how-can-i-create-a-generic-actorcomponent/351161 "2016-03-20T17:51:48Z")\
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You don’t.

It’s not supported (nor probably possible) to exchange dll’s between projects.

Copy your code from one project to another.

Otherwise, you may try to create a new Engine-level module or plugin out of the code shared by the projects:

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