FMOD loading problem

Halifax · Post by **Halifax** » Nov 18, 2007 5:26

Never have been able to get fmod to work. I found a nice tutorial in the forums, the very first line is the problem.

Had to change the include statement quite a bit to make it work.

#INCLUDE "fmod.bi"

This generates the error

FBIDETEMP.exe - Unable to locate component

This application has failed to start because FMOD.DLL was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.

I've specified the path but that didn't work either.

notthecheatr · Post by **notthecheatr** » Nov 18, 2007 5:30

This is because you do not have fmod.dll installed on your system. The following page has links to the home pages of all the libraries there are FB headers for:

http://www.freebasic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=788

The home page of most libraries will include the binary, or DLL for that library. FreeBasic includes the headers, which you need to compile a program using the library, but you'll still need the binary for the library itself, which you can only get at the program home page. In this case, you want

http://www.fmod.org/

Which should have the DLL availible for download. Once you have the DLL, put it in your Windows\System32 directory to install it - note that if you distribute your program over the internet, you should include the DLL with the program so other people don't have to download it.

Halifax · Post by **Halifax** » Nov 18, 2007 6:01

That did it. Wouldn't it be intuitive to place instructions like that at the beginning of a tutorial about fmod? Got a little confused reading the line "Plasma has done a great job in porting the FMOD headers, which are included with the FreeBASIC release, so you don't have to download anything other than FreeBASIC to get started."

Anyway, got it up and running. Thanks for the help.

KristopherWindsor · Post by **KristopherWindsor** » Nov 18, 2007 6:23

Well technically, you can create FMOD programs without fmod.dll; you just can't test them. :-P

notthecheatr · Post by **notthecheatr** » Nov 18, 2007 21:04

Yeah, I guess that might be a little ambiguous, and it certainly confused me when I first started using FreeBasic. v1ctor has said that it's impossible to include the DLLs with the compiler (and that's perfectly logical), so we just have to get used to it.

KristopherWindsor · Post by **KristopherWindsor** » Nov 18, 2007 23:49

If you haven't found it by now, you can just get this fmod.dll that I uploaded to my file host:

http://fusionware.ourproject.org/itech/uploads/fmod.dll

:-)