[mythtv] Windows packaging
Robert Johnston
anaerin at gmail.com
Fri Mar 7 02:44:50 UTC 2008
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Dean Harding <dean.harding at dload.com.au> wrote:
> Nigel Pearson wrote:
> > Note that none of these will actually help in the
> > initial DLL loading though. And that is the big
> > problem for moveable binaries, as I see it.
>
> I don't know if this has been discussed already, but you could possibly
> mark all of the DLLs as delay-loaded, then mythfrontend.exe (or
> whatever) could modify it's own PATH environment variable to point to
> the correct location for the DLLs, before calling any methods in
> libmyth*.dll.
Of course, there's always the point that Windows programs check their
own folder for DLLs before checking system paths and the like.
Therefore having all the *.dlls in the same folder as the .exe will
mean Myth should load them all automagically.
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Robert "Anaerin" Johnston
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