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

[Joshua Bell]

FYI: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7d83bc18(VS.80).aspx

(1) Same dir as executable, (2) current dir, (3) Windows system dir, (4) 
Windows dir, (5) PATH

When we package a viewer, the EXE and DLLs end up in the same dir, so 
(1) applies. When you build a viewer, the executable ends up a few 
directories down so you need to make sure that (2) applies - which is 
what the steps below take care of.

Anna Gulaev wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto:soft at lindenlab.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Anna Gulaev <annagulaev at gmail.com
>     <mailto: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 <http://1.18.4.3> worked fine. 1.20.rc5 does not find
>     it. 1.18.4.3 <http://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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