That's not quite true Paul. OSG provides the search place for the Plug-ins to OSG not the OS and by default does not search in the current or exe's directory it looks for a ./pluginsXXX directory. Personally I would like to see OSG search the current and or same directory as the EXE for its .plug-ins as part of its default search as well . As we do not ship plug-ins in a sub dir and have a different naming scheme to boot.
See this http://www.vis-sim.com/3dsceneBB/viewtopic.php?t=14 for how windows searches for dll's ( OSG breaks this search when it comes to Plugin DLL's ) As to not using setting PATHS or environments vars not ever one can, unfortunately the majority of our customer machines simply do not allow these to be set or altered at any time by any one or program ____________________________________________________________________________ __ Gordon Tomlinson [email protected] IM: [email protected] www.vis-sim.com www.gordontomlinson.com ____________________________________________________________________________ __ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Martz Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2009 2:35 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [osg-users] Working without PATH variables How your executable finds DLLs is up to your OS. So if you don't want to use PATH, and I assume you don't want to statically link, then you'll need to put your DLLs somewhere where the OS will find them. That's really a Windows question and is the same issue for any project, not just OSG. OSG _does_ (or, at least, it used to) link statically. So if that's an option for you, give that a try. The osgDB has some controls built into it that weren't mentioned previously in this thread, so I wanted to throw these out. Look for something like setLibraryFilePathList() in the Registry. You can control it externally with the OSG_LIBRARY_PATH env var. OSG will look for plugins in this location. Also look at setDataFilePathList(), you can specify directories for OSG to search when loading data files. This is controlled externally with the OSG_FILE_PATH env var. So you really have quite a few options here. Paul Martz Skew Matrix Software LLC http://www.skew-matrix.com +1 303 859 9466 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Geoff Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 7:27 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [osg-users] Working without PATH variables Thankyou for the quick replies guys, I'll try those suggestions. As for what I'm working with, I usually develop on Windows, simply because I like VisualStudio as an IDE. My software is generally designed to work "anywhere" if I can wrangle it. Thanks again, - Geoffrey. ------------------ Read this topic online here: http://forum.openscenegraph.org/viewtopic.php?p=10071#10071 _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
