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

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Which version of Pd-extended are you using?

.hc

On Mar 8, 2010, at 5:35 AM, Matteo Sisti Sette wrote:

> 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......
>
> -- 
> Matteo Sisti Sette
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>
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