Tutorial, DevC++ Help

Erik · Post by **Erik** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 6:44 am

On the tutorial, http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/tut_devcpp.html, I came across when it said

Step 5 -- Using the Irrlicht DLL at Runtime
In order to run your applications from within Dev-C++, for debugging, or just for the sake of not having to go outside the IDE to run them, the "irrlicht.dll" supplied with Irrlicht must be in your PATH. With Windows, there are two simple ways to do this:

Add the "irrlicht-0.3\bin" directory from Step 1 to your PATH.
Copy "irrlicht.dll" to your windows\system32 directory, which is in the PATH by default.
I'm not sure that any one method is better than the other -- I use the first one in my programs, but both work.

I do not understand what the tutorial is asking me to do, but I'd be very thankful if someone would explain to me what I need to do.

Thank you,

Erik

jam · Post by **jam** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 8:25 am

Every program that you create that uses Irrlicht needs the file "Irrlicht.dll" to run. This step is just telling you some of the ways you can setup your machine so that your program can find "Irrlicht.dll".

In my opinion it would be best and easiest, to just copy the "Irrlicht.dll" file to where your projects ".exe" is located. That way you won't have to mess with the path settings.

Erik · Post by **Erik** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 6:49 pm

What exactly is the "PATH" that it speaks about? I'm still confused on what I should do.

Erik · Post by **Erik** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 6:51 pm

Sorry for double-posting, but I also don't know where my project's .EXE is located. I'm terribly sorry for all the stupid quetsions, but I'm new, and trying to learn.

Thanks,

Erik

MikeR · Post by **MikeR** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 8:59 pm

The Path that's being talked about is where a program automatically looks for the dll. In order to figure out where your exe file is, from a program you wrote, open dev-cpp, then click "file" "open project" and look at where that is at. That's where your exe will be placed by dev-cpp.

jam · Post by **jam** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 12:12 am

MikeR wrote:The Path that's being talked about is where a program automatically looks for the dll. In order to figure out where your exe file is, from a program you wrote, open dev-cpp, then click "file" "open project" and look at where that is at. That's where your exe will be placed by dev-cpp.

much better explanation than mine

thanks MikeR