Hi Victor,

I renamed the dll to remove the .dll extension.  After that, when I
clicked CsoundVST or ran from console I didn't get errors, but I
didn't get anything else.  On the commandline, it just returned back
to console almost immediately.  So unfortunately that won't work as a
workaround.  Also, as far as I know, there are no symlinks in Windows
that are equal in function to those on Linux/OSX/Unix/BSD/etc.

It seems that Istvan's found the bug so the next build that Michael
has a chance to put up I'll give it a test on this Win2k system.

steven


On 2/27/06, Victor Lazzarini <Victor.Lazzarini@nuim.ie> wrote:
> Can't you rename the file to take the extension name out and distribute it
> like that? I remember in the past that the Python DLL had the same issue,
> I always needed a copy of it without the extension for Csound to work (but
> that was ages ago, I don't think that's necessary anymore). Is there a
> way of creating symlinks on Windows?
>
> Victor
>
> At 14:48 27/02/2006, you wrote:
> >It's probably the way I wrote the LoadLibrary call. It may need to be
> >#ifdef'd for OS version. I'll take a look at it in a few days.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Mike
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> > >From: Istvan Varga <istvan_v@fibermail.hu>
> > >Sent: Feb 27, 2006 6:23 AM
> > >To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
> > >Subject: Re: [Csnd] Newcomer's Questions
> > >
> > >On Monday 27 February 2006 02:35, Steven Yi wrote:
> > >
> > >> csound commandline but trying to run CsoundVST, either from the
> > >> commandline or double-clicking the executable within the windows file
> > >> explorer, gave me an "Unable to locate dll" message dialog, saying
> > >> "The dynamic link library _CsoundVST could not be found in the
> > >> specified path..." with my PATH printed afterwards.  _CsoundVST.dll is
> > >> found on my system in c:\Program Files\Csound\bin, which was also
> > >> listed in the PATH in the error message.
> > >
> > >Actually, CsoundVST.exe is linked against _CsoundVST (without an extension),
> > >and that file is not found, at least by Windows 2000. It is not clear
> > however
> > >why it looks for _CsoundVST and not _CsoundVST.dll.
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> Victor Lazzarini
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> Music Department
> National University of Ireland, Maynooth
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