On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 15:04 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote: > On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 12:37 +0100, Armin Burgmeier wrote: > > > > > > 1.2 > > > > > > I thought that applications would find the DLLs because they are in > > > > > > the > > > > > > same directory. Why is something in the PATH environment variable > > > > > > also > > > > > > needed? I don't understand why MS Visual Studio would need it > > > > > > either if > > > > > > we are using these "property pages". > > > > > > > > > > MSVC++ does not need it to build stuff, but to run or debug from > > > > > within > > > > > the IDE. I'm not sure whether there is an option in MSVC++ to extend > > > > > the > > > > > DLL search path that the property pages could set, but I'll check. > > > > > > > > That sounds rather strange. Please do check. It would be nice to remove > > > > the PATH change if possible. > > > > I checked. I was wrong. When running out of the IDE, the PATH variable > > doesn't need to be set to the gtkmm DLL directory. It's only required > > when running it outside the IDE. > > I thought we were all sure that the DLLs were found by them being in the > same directory as the executable? I am now confused.
The executable is only in the same directory as the gtkmm DLLs when the application is distributed with an installer or a zip file. This works without problems. However, by default, when building an application, the executable is created into debug/ and release/ subdirectories in the project's directory, where the gtkmm DLLs normally aren't. Running it from that location does not work when running it from outside the IDE. > > But I really do wonder how MSVC++ finds > > the correct DLL search path. > > > > So if we want to avoid the PATH change, should we just drop the runtime > > installer? Or, should we only set the PATH variable in the runtime > > installer, but not in the development one, without further asking the > > user? > > First let's understand what's happening. Armin _______________________________________________ gtkmm-list mailing list gtkmm-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list
