system path settings

[MainManPL]

Hi, I'm trying to run a very old HP Chemstation from HP Kayak from 1998 I think, but the problem it requires a .dll (quite a lot of them) and it does not seem to take it from the system path set in host system (win 10 64 bit). Is there a way to define PATH for otvdm ? It also required a win.ini - but after copying one to WINDOWS folder in otvdm folder I get past that. Thanks in advance!

[emendelson]

Perhaps try putting all the .dlls into the same folder with the executable? That often works.

[MainManPL]

Thats crude :D but it worked (note that on native win7 32 bit it run properly with path settings corrected). I had to copy over 80 .dlls, so setting path still would be preferable.
It throws some more errors, but opens window aaaaand crashes with something like that :
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But I think it should be different topic ...
Thanks for help.

[emendelson]

@MainManPL - Very glad to know that the dll-in-same-folder trick worked. I think it's always worked for me. I'll be curious about what happens in the other thread about this.

@cracyc - Perhaps there could be a recommendation to copy all needed dlls into the executable folder in the exe complains that it can't find a dll?

[otya128]

PATH can be defined using the PATH16 environment variable.
Or, you can define PATH by creating AUTOEXEC.BAT in the C directory at the same level as the WINDOWS directory and writing SET PATH=C:\PATH\TO\;.

directory structure:

• otvdm.exe
• WINDOWS
  • SYSTEM
  • ...
• C
  • AUTOEXEC.BAT

[emendelson]

Ah! I should have remembered that. I'll try to add a PATH16 setting to my InnoSetup installer.

[MainManPL]

Thanks, I'll check that.