Maybe the best solution is to not bother with python detection and just making the python related stuff be an optional part of the installer? So that the installer has the "Core Csound" option as a required installation option, then the python related opcodes and features then as an optional package that has the description "This features requires Python 2.5 installed. If the user does not have python installed you may get errors at startup. Python can be installed at python.org" and it will the responsibility of the user to actively decide to install python related opcodes or not. I think we may have discussed an option like this before but don't remember what the resolution was on it. On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Rory Walsh wrote: > It was the float version that I downloaded. I installed it on a machine that > I had just reinstalled windows xp on. Csound was the first thing I installed > on it. Is there any chance that you have the python25.dll somewhere on your > machine and that Csound knows where to look for it? > > Rory. > > > > 2008/9/22 Art Hunkins >> >> IIRC, I had no problems installing the float version without Python - >> i.e., the problem is gone for me. >> >> However, I'm waiting on the portaudio problem, which *is* holding me up. >> >> I assume the issues are unrelated, as Csound initializes just fine until >> just before the end, when it tries to sort out the audio drivers. >> >> Art Hunkins >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Rory Walsh >> To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk >> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 6:24 AM >> Subject: [Csnd] latest installers for windows... >> Just tried the latest installer for windows. I choose to install without >> python and when I run Csound I get the dreaded 'application has failed to >> start because python25.dll was not found'. I thought this had been sorted >> out? Perhaps I missed something. >> >> Rory. >> > >