[PD] Extended can't load any library except Gem on Windows Vista

[Matteo Sisti Sette]

Hi,

The short version: I fresh-installed Pd Extended into the default 
location (C:\Program Files\pd) and I get:

cyclone: can't load library
zexy: can't load library
creb: can't load library
....

and so on for EVERY library except Gem. The strange thing is that Gem 
does load, and it is located in pd/extra just like all other libraries. 
This is really crazy isn't it?

What can be wrong?



The long version:

I had already installed Pd Extended and it used to work fine. It was 
installed in an "unusual" location: "D:/programmi/pd_extended", where 
"programmi" is the italian word for "programs" but it is _not_ the 
default directory for programs in my computer (who speaks spanish, not 
italian).
When I installed it, I had to manually modify the "pd-settings.reg" file 
that adds the libraries to startup, because it uses the wrong location 
for the registry keys (this has nothing to do with the path where Pd is 
installed). After that, I had Pd Extended working fine and loading all 
libraries.

Also, I have Pd Vanilla installed in another directory, 
"D:\programmi\pd". I run it using the "-noprefs" option, because 
otherwise, it would (try to) load the libraries from pd Extended.

Today, misteriously and without (apparently) touching anything, Pd 
Extended stopped working, that is it started giving me "cannot load 
library" messages.
I tried uninstalling and reinstalling it to the same directory with no 
luck. So I uninstalled and reinstalled again, this time to the default 
location C:\Program Files\pd (note disk C which is where the OS is 
installed, and "Program Files" is the actual system Program Files 
directory, which is displayed as "Archivos de Programa").

However the result is the same: "cannot load library" for all libraries 
except Gem.
The Gem it is loading is actually the one installed inside the 
C:\Program Files\pd\extra\Gem directory, which is the same path where 
all other libraries are located too. I know it because if I rename that 
gem.dll file, it won't load.

Please help!

thanks
m.


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