On Tuesday 14 February 2006 19:58, Art Hunkins wrote:

> I'm getting the following runtime issues following an XP install of the CS5
> *.zip* version:
> 
> Messages complain that csound32.dll, csound64.dll and pm_dll.dll are not
> Csound plugin libraries. Then a box opens saying that the program cannot
> find python24.dll.
> 
> The run continues disastrously as no opcodes can be found; then the run
> aborts.

This suggests that OPCODEDIR and OPCODEDIR64 are not set correctly. For the
.zip package, you should set the following environment variables, assuming
that the archive is unpacked in C:\ (if not, correct the paths accordingly):

set OPCODEDIR=C:\csound5\plugins
set OPCODEDIR64=C:\csound5\plugins64
set PATH=%PATH%;C:\csound5\bin

The last line means that the directory is added to the PATH, which is
a list of multiple paths separated by the semicolon character. Obviously,
the exact way of setting the environment depends on the Windows version.

If you want to use the Python opcodes, you need to install Python 2.4.
Otherwise, just delete csound5\plugins\py.dll and csound5\plugins64\py.dll,
and the pop-up about the missing Python library should be gone.

Note that csound.exe uses 64 bit floats; for single precision, use
csound32.exe.