Error 126 when loading my AE plugin with cairo library

[yaroslavr32391224]

Dear AE fellows,

I'm creating AE pugin with the help of cairo library.

I encounter the following strange problem.

When I load my plugin from visual studio, AE starts and load my plugin OK.

But when I start AE on its own and apply plugin layer,

AE fails to load it. It gives:

Error plugin: myplugin.aex could not be loaded(126)

(48::46)

How can one fix it?

[shachar carmi]

is the non-vs test done on the same machine?
if it's a different machine then it's porbably a dependency issue where the plug-in relies on some dlls that are not present on the other machine.

if it's the same machine, then perahps there's a difference in what directory is considered the "home" directory of the process, which in turn makes some dependent upon dlls not available for your plug-in to load when ran not though the debugger.

[yaroslavr32391224]

Thanks for the reply!

It is the same machine. I'll try to figure out how to fix dlls folders.

[shachar carmi · Accepted solution]

first make sure it's indeed the issue! build a simple plug-in that loads properly both from the debugger and directly. then have it prompt the path to it's home folder.

(just a suggestion before you go chasing a speculation)

[yaroslavr32391224]

Dear Shachar,

 the issue is resolved! Thank you for your help!

I put cairo.dll into /Adobe after/Support Files folder of Adobe After directory.

And it worked like a charm.

[shachar carmi]

yay!

but perhaps it's est to detect your plug-ins path and load the cairo library from there using a defined path instead of just the library name...

cairo is a popular library and you don't want to deploy your plug-in's components onto a common directory where it might be ovewritten by some other plug-in using a different version.

[yaroslavr32391224]

Dear Shachar,

thank you for your advice!

I'll follow it!

Yaroslav.