Hello *;

I have a short question concerning my compiled version of POV-Ray (source
code of version 3.6).

When I try to open it this error message appears:

"Editor DLL initialisation failed [LoadLibrary failed, code is 0000007e]"

and all editor operations are missing.

Has anybody an idea how to solve the problem?

Thank you!

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Pfingstei wrote:
> Hello *;
> 
> I have a short question concerning my compiled version of POV-Ray (source
> code of version 3.6).
> 
> When I try to open it this error message appears:
> 
> "Editor DLL initialisation failed [LoadLibrary failed, code is 0000007e]"
> 
> and all editor operations are missing.

That error means that the DLL can't be found in the expected location. Did
you install the standard POV-Ray distribution?

Note also that by default when building the source code, the DLL's are not
placed into the same directory as the EXE.

-- Chris

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Chris Cason <del### [at] deletethistoopovrayorg> wrote:
> Pfingstei wrote:
> > Hello *;
> >
> > I have a short question concerning my compiled version of POV-Ray (source
> > code of version 3.6).
> >
> > When I try to open it this error message appears:
> >
> > "Editor DLL initialisation failed [LoadLibrary failed, code is 0000007e]"
> >
> > and all editor operations are missing.
>
> That error means that the DLL can't be found in the expected location. Did
> you install the standard POV-Ray distribution?
>
> Note also that by default when building the source code, the DLL's are not
> placed into the same directory as the EXE.
>
> -- Chris

Thank you!

For testing POV-Ray I had installed the standard POV-Ray distribution
(3.6.1). I used the DLL-file for my compiled one (compiled with source code
of 3.6) which did not work. After this I tried the 3.5.0-DLL of MegaPOV and
it was successful.

So it could be a problem of different POV-Ray versions.

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> Chris Cason <del### [at] deletethistoopovrayorg> wrote:
>> Pfingstei wrote:
>>> When I try to open it this error message appears:
>>>
>>> "Editor DLL initialisation failed [LoadLibrary failed, code is 0000007e]"
>>>
>>> and all editor operations are missing.
>> That error means that the DLL can't be found in the expected location. Did
>> you install the standard POV-Ray distribution?
> 
> For testing POV-Ray I had installed the standard POV-Ray distribution
> (3.6.1). I used the DLL-file for my compiled one (compiled with source code
> of 3.6) which did not work. After this I tried the 3.5.0-DLL of MegaPOV and
> it was successful.
> 
> So it could be a problem of different POV-Ray versions.
> 
> 

I don't remember exactly what version it was (I think 3.6 vs 3.6.1) but 
I remember the editor was upgraded in a way that makes old DLLs with new 
POVWin (and vice versa) incompatible. If you compiled 3.6, make sure you 
have 3.6 editor DLLs.

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