Libraries not found when startup directory is different from exe directory

[anothercef4duser2]

I'm working on an application that installs into "Program Files", but the installer sets the startup directory of the desktop shortcut it creates, to the public "Documents" folder.

When I try to start the app from this shortcut, the app errs because the chromium libraries are not found. The libraries *are* installed into the .exe folder in "Program Files" and the app starts up if I manually go to that folder and start it.

Is it WAD that the libraries are not found, if the active directory is not the same as the directory containing the executable?

[salvadordf]

Hi,

Try setting the full path to the libraries in GlobalCEFApp.FrameworkDirPath and GlobalCEFApp.ResourcesDirPath before the GlobalCEFApp.StartMainProcess call in the DPR file.

[anothercef4duser2]

Thanks, that works, when I also set the GlobalCEFApp.LocalesDirPath.

However, the question still remains, shouldn't the libraries be found in the exe directory by default? If I put other needed DLLs there, Windows still finds and loads them.

[salvadordf]

Hi,

Thanks, that works, when I also set the GlobalCEFApp.LocalesDirPath.
However, the question still remains, shouldn't the libraries be found in the exe directory by default? If I put other needed DLLs there, Windows still finds and loads them.

Yes. The CEF3 binaries are loaded by default from the main exe directory but in some rare cases it's better to specify the full path.