On 12. april 2015, 9:14:59, Mukund Sivaraman wrote: > GIMP plug-ins are regular programs not DLLs, and they are executed by > GIMP. You can check the paths to these in the pluginrc that is typically > stored in %appdata%\Roaming. Not only I'm aware of that, but this is the sole reason for the problems I described. If they were DLLs, we wouldn't have these problems, since the required libraries would've already been loaded by GIMP. > I suspect that this person has not set PATH. For example, the nightly > builds from darkrefraction.com just extract the tree of files and expect > a user to run the "run_gimp.bat" batch file (which sets PATH). If one > were to run gimp-2.9.exe directly in this case, the plug-ins that link > to DLLs would not find them (e.g., the file format ones that look for > libpng, libtiff, libjpeg, etc.). Like I said, if something put an older version of a DLL GIMP's plugins use to System32, PATH won't matter, as it's only checked after System32. -- < Jernej Simončič ><><><><>< http://eternallybored.org/ > The number of errors made is equal to the sum of the squares employed. -- Transcription Square Law _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list
