I downloaded the program dated 2013-10-16 from Sourceforge and installed it. My system is Windows7 Enterprise 64-bit SP1 with 16GB RAM. Running the program gave me an error message on startup, about a missing DLL. I tried re-installing, as advised, and got the same error message. Searching for the same DLL in my existing programs pointed to GIMP 2.8.6 <<C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\bin>>. I copied the file, ran Mandelbulber again, and got another error message, this time for a different DLL. Copy, run again. This was repeated until no error message was generated.
The list of copied DLL's:
libatk-1.0-0.dll
....
zlib1.dll
All were copied from the above noted folder, with the exception of <<libatk-1.0-0.dll>>, which was copied from <<C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\32\bin>>.
Now I get to play. Thanks for your work!
Hi
I tried to reproduce this error. The only way which I found is to start some older 64-bit version from C:\Program files\Mandelbulber folder. I'm not sure which version you tried to start (32-bit or 64-bit).
Mu suggestion: uninstall 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Mandelbulber, clean up C:\Program files\Mandelbulber and C:\Program files (x86)\Mandelbulber folders and then install Mandelbulber from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mandelbulber/files/Mandelbulber%2064-bit%20OpenCL-1.18-Setup.exe/downloadI am not a windows7 user ,but very longtime linux user .
but win7 has a very nasty bug with programs installed to "c/:program files "
it is called MS's UAC
( other software i support has MS uac issues )
it is advisable NOT to install non Microsoft programs into "c/:program files "
but to C
for example
c:/Mandelbulber
otherwise you might NEED to be the Administrator and use the "start" menu "r-click" - run as administrator- option to save config settings to the install folder in c/program files
windows "should" look in the folder that has the "Mandelbulber.exe" program FIRST before it searches MS's $PATH for a dll
Mandelbulber doesn't need to write any files (config, or other) to program folder, so this problem doesn't exits with Mandelbulber. I think under Linux you also don't store any config files in /usr/bin/... This is the same.