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

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at at.or.at
Thu Mar 11 00:33:41 CET 2010


Sounds like 'libdir' isn't being loaded first.  Try reseting your  
registry settings with the included pdsettings.reg file.

.hc

On Mar 7, 2010, at 1:07 PM, Matteo Sisti Sette wrote:

> Errata corrige: there is one other library that does load, it is  
> "vbap".
>
> And one thing it has in common with Gem is that its folder contains  
> a dll file with the same name, namely "vbap.dll". Seems like all  
> other libraries don't (though I haven't checked _all_ of them).
>
> So I guess I should add the other directories to path rather than to  
> startup?
> The very strange thing is that it used to work up to a few days ago  
> however.......
>
> Matteo Sisti Sette escribió:
>> 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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