[PD] How to add relative paths - was: Re: Extended can't load any library except Gem on Windows Vista

[Matteo Sisti Sette]

IOhannes m zmoelnig escribió:

> seems like you are missing the libdir loader.
> Pd-extended compiles libraries as libdirs, [...]

Oh yes!
Libdir is indeed the first item in the "loadlib" list - i.e. it is 
"loadlib1"="libdir" in the registry, so the mistery is why libdir 
doesn't [didn't] load in the first place (I do, and did, have a 
libdir.dll file in the extra folder).

Now two strange things:
1) I manually re-edited the .reg file, apparently reestablishing it just 
like it was before (I had replaced all "loadlib" with "path" as a 
workaround, to have all externals available though not pre-loaded), and 
surprise surprise, now everything works: libdir loads and all subsequent 
libs load

2) Now, just to try, I deleted all keys from the registry (all the 
"loadlib" entries _and_ the "nloadlib" entry); however, when I run Pd, 
it still loads all libraries, and they appear in the "startup" list. If 
I modify the list from Pd and click "Apply", then all keys in the 
registry are created again.

So, how does Pd "remember" the startup list after I delete it from the 
registry? Seems like it saves it somewhere else. Where?? Or is it the 
registry itself that has some sort of "cache"?


Regarding mistrey (1), there is an error in the pd-settings.reg file (as 
it "ships" with Pd Extended), that the line just before 
"loadlib1"="libdir" reads
"flags"="
where it should read
"flags"=""

However I had fixed it already, so it doesn't quite explain the fact 
that libdir didn't load......

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