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[Ivan]

Has anyone ever managed to link OpenAL on windows so that it doesnt require an installer? Is it even possible?

[Glaiel-Gamer]

I think you aren't allowed to distribute the dll and need to distribute oalinst.exe instead

I have a launcher script that runs the installer for you if necessary, but its ugly and i'll probably wrap the game up in one regular installer instead when its ready.

[Ivan]

Hmm.. I just found that blender uses openal and it doesn't require installation. I downloaded blender in a zip and there it has the two openAL dlls just sitting there.

[Draknek]

I have done this before and it seemed to work: http://www.draknek.org/games/cavein/cavein.zip (excuse the crappy game)

I think (can't remember too well) the openal32.dll included there may be different to the one installed by the redistributable installer. But I can't remember how I discovered this or where I found the version I ended up using.

BUT I wouldn't be confident that it will work on all computers. I didn't get any reports of it not working, but only a very small group of people ever tested it.

[BorisTheBrave]

I think you aren't allowed to distribute the dll and need to distribute oalinst.exe instead

I have a launcher script that runs the installer for you if necessary, but its ugly and i'll probably wrap the game up in one regular installer instead when its ready.

I'm intrigued by this. It seems rather useless as a library if this is really a requirement. Is it possible you've misunderstood?

[Glaiel-Gamer]

I think you aren't allowed to distribute the dll and need to distribute oalinst.exe instead

I have a launcher script that runs the installer for you if necessary, but its ugly and i'll probably wrap the game up in one regular installer instead when its ready.

I'm intrigued by this. It seems rather useless as a library if this is really a requirement. Is it possible you've misunderstood?

i guess i'm somewhat mistaken

http://opensource.creative.com/pipermail/openal/2003-November/006979.html

[Ivan]

I still don't get it... It's #3? How do you set that up?

[badboy666]

Try to copy the following files into the directory of the exe-file:

OpenAL32.dll (from "%windir%\system32" after "oalinst.exe" was run)
wrap_oal.dll (from "%windir%\system32" after "oalinst.exe" was run)
alut.dll (from http://connect.creativelabs.com/openal/Downloads/ALUT/freealut-1.1.0-bin.zip)

I'm not quite sure if this solution works for you. I only tested it under XP using VirtualBox with XP, so this might cause problems with other OS.
Cheers