Re: OpenAL Redist

On Thursday, July 07, 2011 9:43:48 AM Juan Miguel Martín Muñoz wrote:
> Does OpenAL work like OpenGL? Is there any specification so each vendor
> makes his own
> implementation? In this case, if redist uses oalinst.exe, am I overwriting
> this implementation?

Hi.

With OpenAL, there is a "router" DLL called OpenAL32.dll that sits in the 
system32 and syswow64 folders. This DLL manages the various vendor 
implementations, and is installed by oalinst.exe. It also installs Creative's 
default implementations, ct_oal.dll and wrap_oal.dll, and will not mess with 
other installed implementations.

IIRC, the installer will also make sure not to overwrite newer DLLs, so you 
don't need to worry about accidentally installing an older version if the user 
has something newer.

Hope that helps. :)

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