[osg-submissions] DLL placement on Windows

Norman Vine nhv at cape.com
Fri Aug 24 08:05:32 PDT 2007


Jean-Sébastien Guay writes:
> 
> Renaming this thread, since it isn't related to the fix I did 
> anymore...
> 
> > You don't always want to install the OSG, when I do all my 
> dev work I
> > never install the OSG, just use paths set to the local 
> build directory
> > and can run everything without problems.  Having to install requires
> > you to install everything, even when you just change a single file.
> 
> Ok, I can see your point, but for me running INSTALL takes all of  
> about 3 seconds, so I never saw a problem. Also, using  
> OSG_LIBRARY_PATH you can get it to find the right libs 
> without running  
> INSTALL, if you really don't want to run it, so I was just thinking  
> that wide-sweeping changes for something that already works weren't  
> really necessary.
> 
> But if you want to make it work without requiring the INSTALL 
> step, go  
> ahead, I just find it isn't time well spent, but that's your call.


The VC IDE allows for project specific paths to be set

AFAICT This is the 'suggested' way of handling the PATH during the
development cycle

Cheers

Norman



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