SDL.dll
Friday, August 3, 2012 - 14:15
I'm having a problem where whenever I try and open Flare, it sais "the program can't start because SDL.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix the problem."
It has been working fine, but recently this showed up. I have reinstalled Flare 3 or 4 times already and it still is not running. Is there any way I can fix this?
Is there a file named SDL.dll in the flare game folder? If not, you'll probably want to download again.
If it is there, it's probably a path issue (some people said this happens on Vista?). Try running flare.exe from a batch file (flare.bat) in the same folder.
Yes, the SDL.dll file is there and I'm currently running on windows 7 not vista.
PS
How exactly do I run from a batch file?
If you check Flare's github page you can download one from there.
http://github.com/clintbellanger/flare
Scroll down and you'll see a Launch Flare batch file. Save it to your flare folder. essentially it's a plaintext file with a .bat extension that only contains the line: flare.exe
Run a .bat file by doubleclicking it in windows explorer.
No, sorry, it doesn't seem to be working. It still comes up with the SDL.dll missing even though I installed the batch file.
Try renaming the .bat file to a .cmd file, see if you get a different result?
No it just doesn't want to work.
OK we'll try a couple more things.
First, make sure the flare folder was extracted, and that all of this isn't happening inside a zip file.
After that, try running flare directly from command line. Start, run, cmd.exe. Then navigate to the extacted flare folder using the cd command. Once you are in the flare folder, run the dir command to make sure flare.exe and SDL.dll are there. If so, type flare and hit enter.
I downloaded it again and now it's randomly working :D thanks for your time, sorry if it was a bother.
Not a problem. All of this may help plenty other players.