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 
> >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
Music Technology Laboratory
Music Department
National University of Ireland, Maynooth 

Victor Lazzarini 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?

Symlinks on Windows are called shortcuts. Right-click on the item in 
Windows Explorer and choose Create Shortcut. It should also be possible 
just to rename the dll without the dll suffix, there seems to be no 
restriction on dll names.
Martin