Re: OpenAL Redist

Thanks Chris!!! Very useful!

2011/7/7 Chris Robinson <[email protected]>

> 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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