Re: [Audacity-devel] FFmpeg on Windows

[Leland <le...@au...>]

Quoting Vaughan Johnson <va...@au...>:

> Leland wrote:
> > ...
> > That, btw, is something that will happen if we have ppl put Audacity in
> > their path.  They will get whatever version of the libraries we distribute
> > when they're really supposed to be using the system32 version or what ever.
> >
> >
>
> I didn't think that was under discussion. To what purpose?
>
I actually didn't see the final decision on where things were going to go.

> My opinion is that we should put the MSVC runtimes in the system folder
> (already in the PATH, so Audacity will find them) and the wxWidgets DLLs
> either there, or in the Audacity folder (assuming few other apps will
> want them). And for any of them, if they're going to replace an existing
> version (more likely with the MSVC runtimes), check the version/date and
> ask the user.
>
That's what I was hoping the final decision was.  It's the "right" way to do it.

Leland