Hi Joseph,
First of all, let me thank you very much for taking the time to answer my query. I apologize for not having read the earlier post - I will do so as soon as I can, and for my lack of the basic knowledge of windows programming- I am a noob and working on improving it. I have taken your advice and removed the dlls from the system32 folder.
Noob is such a negative term. It is fine being new to something, and in the process of learning. But you need to read a lot in that case, and try to find out the real reason why something works the way it does. Sometimes abstractions are good, but sometimes they make things harder to figure out when something goes wrong... :-)
When learning programming it's important to understand the general process that your code follows before being executed, and in this case, the fact that dynamic libraries are loaded at runtime from some specific places on your system is important knowledge.
You were right about me assuming that the OS would look at OSG_BIN_PATH just because it was specified as a system path. I was following the documentation on setting up OSG given at osghelp.com and I missed the part that says add OSG_BIN_PATH to Path as it did not appear to be a step to be taken. I have added the path now and it is working fine.
Yeah, that's one bad thing about following tutorials sometimes. They often don't explain why you need to do some things, and you could then assume that some step is not important and skip it. So another lesson to learn, to be a bit more critical of the information you read in tutorials on the web... (which is true about pretty much any information on the web, as you surely know :-) )
I did gain a lot of knowledge about paths from your reply and wish did learn not to post on here, before exhausting all options - a lesson well learnt.
Hmm, I'm sorry if I made it sound that way. You don't have to exhaust all options, not at all. The community here is very friendly (I hope the tone of my reply didn't convince you otherwise) and we'll generally be open to answering pretty much any question. This particular problem has been asked a lot in the past few weeks though, as I said in my reply, and that's why I wished you had looked at some other messages (the archive or the forum).
In general I know that whenever I have a problem, what I'd like is to get it solved as quickly as possible. So if I can find the information quickly by searching the archives (searching is an art, but again it's something you can get better at) I get an answer quicker. But whenever I see conflicting information or don't find a clear answer, I will ask on the mailing list, and I hope you will continue to do so too.
In any case, glad I could help, and have fun coding great graphics programs with OSG!
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