[sldev] Re: [VWR] fmod.dll not found

[Anna Gulaev]

Thanks, Soft. That's what I did. I made a shortcut with the newview
directory as the start directory. Works dandily :)

Anna

On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Soft <soft at lindenlab.com> wrote:

> On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Anna Gulaev <annagulaev at gmail.com> wrote:
> > How does a windows program built with visual studio know where to look
> for
> > DLLs?
> >
> > Every suggestion I can find says to put the path in the PATH environment
> > variable. Clearly, this is not how the SL viewer knows to find fmod.dll
> in
> > the newview directory, because I don't have newview in my path, and
> version
> > 1.18.4.3 worked fine. 1.20.rc5 does not find it. 1.18.4.3 does.
> >
> > the fmod DLL is here: /cygdrive/c/sl/1.20.rc5/linden/indra/newview
> > the executable is here:
> /cygdrive/c/sl/1.20.rc5/linden/indra/newview/Release
> >
> > How is the SL viewer finding (or not!) the fmod DLL?
>
> Hello, Anna. I believe that Windows treats the current directory as
> though it were part of the path. So what you probably want to do if
> you wish to run the viewer in this fashion is to make a shortcut or a
> batch file that sets the newview directory as the current directory,
> and then run the release executable without actually switching to that
> directory.
>
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