Hi Chris,
Are you then also putting the required plug-ins in the same folder and
no more in a separate osgPlugins-X.Y.Z folder?
Cheers,
Émeric
2014-09-24 19:59 GMT+02:00 Chris Hanson <xe...@alphapixel.com>:
> I deploy my applications with their own local copy of OSG in the same folder
> as the main application executable. I typically have a dozen different
> versions and flavors of OSG on my computer at once so OSG_ROOT becomes
> irrelevant.
>
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Émeric MASCHINO
> <emeric.masch...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Farshid,
>>
>> Correct, but what about the plug-ins and examples? They aren't
>> installed in OSG_ROOT\bin. So if you only copy the DLLs in
>> OSG_ROOT\bin, when trying to load a plug-in (installed in
>> OSG_ROOT\bin\osgPlugins-X.Y.Z) or running an example (installed in
>> OSG_ROOT\shared\OpenSceneGraph\bin) that requires an external DLL,
>> this last one will thus be searched in the PATH, with the risk of
>> finding a similarly named DLL elsewhere in the filesystem before
>> reaching the expected on in OSG_ROOT\bin. How do you manage this
>> situation on your own?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Émeric
>>
>>
>> 2014-09-24 19:12 GMT+02:00 Farshid Lashkari <fla...@gmail.com>:
>> > Hi Émeric,
>> >
>> > Placing the external libraries in OSG_ROOT\bin should work as long as
>> > the
>> > main executable is also in OSG_ROOT\bin. Windows should first search for
>> > DLLs in the same folder as the executable before searching in PATH. So
>> > there
>> > is no need to add your application to PATH, or worry about conflicting
>> > DLLs
>> > in PATH. I've deployed my application like this for years and never had
>> > any
>> > issues.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Farshid
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Émeric MASCHINO
>> > <emeric.masch...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> What's the best practice regarding OSG deployment on Windows? Indeed,
>> >> several plug-ins depend on external libraries. Is it best to put the
>> >> required DLLs in OSG_ROOT\bin\osgPlugins-X.Y.Z or rather in
>> >> OSG_ROOT\bin, thus ensuring that OSG_ROOT\bin is in the PATH so that
>> >> the plug-ins can find them?
>> >>
>> >> With this last approach, there's only one copy of each DLL shared by
>> >> the OSG applications, plug-ins and examples. The drawback is that if a
>> >> similarly named DLL is found in the PATH before reaching OSG_ROOT\bin,
>> >> an incorrect DLL may be loaded.
>> >>
>> >> By contrast, copying the required DLLs in
>> >> OSG_ROOT\bin\osgPlugins-X.Y.Z may also require copying them in
>> >> OSG_ROOT\bin as well as in OSG_ROOT\share\OpenSceneGraph\bin.
>> >>
>> >> Any advice on what's better?
>> >>
>> >> Émeric
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