A Bin Folder

[reepblue]

Recently updated to the 4.4 beta, and saw the massive amounts of additional dlls needed to run the executable. Perhaps move the dlls. so, and executable to a Bin folder and set the working directory to "../".

Anyone can do this now with the professional edition by adding this to the main function:

FileSystem::SetDir("../");

 

The issue comes when launching from the editor. Not a major issue, but the file directory would look nicer. Maybe something to consider in LE5.

[Crazycarpet]

This would certainly be nice, however it'd make the need for the project manger to add PATH variables for windows users to the project's bin folder. Simply putting it beside the exe makes it much easier for Windows to find.

With Lua you can add search directories to require, etc by modifying package.cpath. When mollifying this ! represents the working directory of the project and ? represents what you type into require. I.E in: !\\Bin\\? when require("test") is ran

! would be the working directory. (Generally the exe's directory.)

? would be "test"