[Rd] Finding windows DLLs

Oleg Sklyar osklyar at ebi.ac.uk
Mon Jan 7 21:06:46 CET 2008


Should adding PREFIX/library/XML/libs to PATH before system32 solve the 
issue as Windows relies on PATH when searching for libs as well?

Dr Oleg Sklyar | EBI-EMBL, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK | +44-1223-494466


Martin Morgan wrote:
> The XML package relies on libxml2.dll (e.g., bundled with the CRAN
> binary) installed in library/XML/libs. Unfortunately,
> c:/WINDOWS/system32/libxml2.dll will be found and loaded before
> this.
> 
> Is there any programatic solution?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Martin



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