Local media is unable to load nde.dll

[Chahine]

Hi all,

I'm working on a plugin for Winamp, which compiles and runs well using Visual C++ Debug mode. But when I switch to Release mode, the code still compiles but doesn't run anymore ; indeed, Winamp crashes at startup with the following error :

Local Media was unable to load library ("nde.dll") which is required.
Local Media cannot continue succesfully and will be turned off.

Note that as my code uses music tags, I had first to compile and link mlExplorer/nde from Winamp SDK, which makes a new nde.dll file in Winamp's directory ; so I also switched those two projects to Release mode.

I'm running under Windows 7 64 bits. Has anyone an idea on how to fix this ?
Thank you in advance !

[Chahine]

No one has an idea ?

[DrO]

its most likely due to your nde.dll being from an older codebase which conflicts with the version the Winamp client and dlls expect (as it expects an mde.dll from that release typically).

you'd have to look at creating your nde.dll with a different name or just embedding it as a statically compiled library into your plug-in.

-daz

[Chahine]

I embedded it as a static library and it worked. Thank you !