From: Victor Shepelev <vshepelev@...>
Date: 2006-06-07T09:04:36+09:00
Subject: Re: DLL load path

From: Logan Capaldo [mailto:logancapaldo@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 2:57 AM
> On Jun 6, 2006, at 7:50 PM, Victor Shepelev wrote:
> 
> > Hi all.
> >
> > The strange question: I need modify path, where .dll's would be
> > looked for
> > (from ruby script).
> >
> > For ex.
> >
> > require 'raspell' #bang! 'aspell.dll could'nt be found
> >
> > I need something like
> >
> > setenv('PATH', getenv('PATH') + '<my custom folder>')
> >
> > but also I want PATH system variable not be changed after my script is
> > stopped...
> >
> > I think question is dumb, but really don't know, where to look for
> > answer.
> > And again, sorry for my poor English.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Victor.
> >
> >
> 
> $LOAD_PATH << <my custom folder>
> require 'raspell'

Hmmm... I think it would only affect Ruby modules, not Windows dll's

My example was not clear. It meant:

require 'raspell' => load raspell.so (ruby module), which would try to load
aspell.dll (plain C dll). And it would look for aspell.dll only in <current
path> and system PATH, not ruby's $LOAD_PATH, IMO.

V.