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Detect if OpenAL is installed

Posted Saturday, 1 September, 2012 - 19:39 by james_lohr in

Hello,

Is it possible to detect whether OpenAL is installed?

I would like to run oalinst.exe when my application starts up, but only if it has not already been installed. Annoyingly it will pop up with a "Do you want to allow this application to make changes to your computer" dialogue, so I only want this to happen once when the application is first run.

I have to say that it is an immense frustration that OpenAL doesn't just come as a few dlls I can include in the application directory.

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Re: Detect if OpenAL is installed

Posted Saturday, 1 September, 2012 - 20:23 by james_lohr

On second thought, I guess that also means I then need to make my application restart itself. What a hack. :(

I HATE installers, but it looks like I'll just have to give in and use NSIS.

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Re: Detect if OpenAL is installed

Posted Sunday, 2 September, 2012 - 00:00 by Inertia

You can distribute with this dll OpenAL Soft.

It may be possible to rip the openal32.dll and wrap_oal.dll from the creative labs install, but you should check their license before shipping that.

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Re: Detect if OpenAL is installed

Posted Sunday, 2 September, 2012 - 08:56 by james_lohr

In the end I went with creating an NSIS installer, and installing OpenAL silently from oalinst.exe during the installation. It turned out to be surprisingly clean.