At 08:50 p.m. 10/11/2013, Mark Rotteveel wrote: >On 10-11-2013 03:10, Helen Borrie wrote: >> Some of the client tools that ship with Fb use fbclient.dll and just find it >> right there. Other tools and drivers, you have to tell them how to find it. >> Either use the PATH environment variable and put it right at the beginning; >> or put a copy of the bitness-correct fbclient.dll in the appropriate system >> folder. >> >> (On a 64-bit Windows, the 64-bit dlls go into the Windows folder and 32-bit >> dlls into \Windows\sysWOW64; nothing in \Windows\system32.) > >That is not true: on 64 bit windows, the 64 bit DLLs go into the >System32 folder (afaik an archaic method to get libraries and the >searchpath and I believe Microsoft discourages it), and not in the >Windows folder.
Interesting. On my 64-bit Windows box, system32 is empty and all the 64-bit dlls are in c:\Windows. This was a standard install from a retail pack of Win7 Pro. heLen
