unable to load plugins when started from Windows command prompt

[wmjb]

built from source on windows, audacious loads but gives error regarding unable to load plugins, giving the error about the dll could not be loaded plugin-load.cc:70 [plugin-load] the specified module could not be found and gives the correct location of the dll file that does exist in c:\usr\local\lib\audacious\general\skins.dll for example. what could i be doing wrong?

[wmjb]

R:\audacious-plugins\build>audacious --help
Usage: audacious [OPTION] ... [FILE] ...

-1, -2, -3, etc. Select instance to run/control
-h, --help Show command-line help
-v, --version Show version
-p, --play Start playback
-u, --pause Pause playback
-t, --play-pause Pause if playing, play otherwise
-s, --stop Stop playback
-r, --rew Skip to previous song
-f, --fwd Skip to next song
-e, --enqueue Add files to the playlist
-E, --enqueue-to-temp Add files to a temporary playlist
-m, --show-main-window Display the main window
-j, --show-jump-box Display the jump-to-song window
-H, --headless Start without a graphical interface
-q, --quit-after-play Quit on playback stop
-V, --verbose Print debugging messages (may be used twice)
-G, --gtk Run in GTK mode
-Q, --qt Run in Qt mode

R:\audacious-plugins\build>audacious --qt
ERROR ../src/libaudcore/plugin-load.cc:70 [plugin_load]: C:\usr\local\lib\audacious\Input\ffaudio.dll could not be loaded: 'C:\usr\local\lib\audacious\Input\ffaudio.dll': The specified module could not be found.
ERROR ../src/libaudcore/plugin-load.cc:70 [plugin_load]: C:\usr\local\lib\audacious\Input\flacng.dll could not be loaded: 'C:\usr\local\lib\audacious\Input\flacng.dll': The specified module could not be found.
ERROR ../src/libaudcore/plugin-load.cc:70 [plugin_load]: C:\usr\local\lib\audacious\Input\vorbis.dll could not be loaded: 'C:\usr\local\lib\audacious\Input\vorbis.dll': The specified module could not be found.
ERROR ../src/libaudcore/plugin-load.cc:70 [plugin_load]: C:\usr\local\lib\audacious\Input\vtx.dll could not be loaded: 'C:\usr\local\lib\audacious\Input\vtx.dll': The specified module could not be found.
ERROR ../src/libaudcore/plugin-load.cc:70 [plugin_load]: C:\usr\local\lib\audacious\Input\wavpack.dll could not be loaded: 'C:\usr\local\lib\audacious\Input\wavpack.dll': The specified module could not be found.
ERROR ../src/libaudcore/plugin-load.cc:70 [plugin_load]: C:\usr\local\lib\audacious\Output\filewriter.dll could not be loaded: 'C:\usr\local\lib\audacious\Output\filewriter.dll': The specified module could not be found.
ERROR ../src/libaudcore/plugin-load.cc:70 [plugin_load]: C:\usr\local\lib\audacious\Effect\ladspa.dll could not be loaded: 'C:\usr\local\lib\audacious\Effect\ladspa.dll': The specified module could not be found.
ERROR ../src/libaudcore/plugin-load.cc:70 [plugin_load]: C:\usr\local\lib\audacious\General\albumart.dll could not be loaded: 'C:\usr\local\lib\audacious\General\albumart.dll': The specified module could not be found.
ERROR ../src/libaudcore/plugin-load.cc:70 [plugin_load]: C:\usr\local\lib\audacious\General\delete-files.dll could not be loaded: 'C:\usr\local\lib\audacious\General\delete-files.dll': The specified module could not be found.
ERROR ../src/libaudcore/plugin-load.cc:70 [plugin_load]: C:\usr\local\lib\audacious\General\gtkui.dll could not be loaded: 'C:\usr\local\lib\audacious\General\gtkui.dll': The specified module could not be found.
ERROR ../src/libaudcore/plugin-load.cc:70 [plugin_load]: C:\usr\local\lib\audacious\General\lyrics-gtk.dll could not be loaded: 'C:\usr\local\lib\audacious\General\lyrics-gtk.dll': The specified module could not be found.
ERROR ../src/libaudcore/plugin-load.cc:70 [plugin_load]: C:\usr\local\lib\audacious\General\playlist-manager.dll could not be loaded: 'C:\usr\local\lib\audacious\General\playlist-manager.dll': The specified module could not be found.
ERROR ../src/libaudcore/plugin-load.cc:70 [plugin_load]: C:\usr\local\lib\audacious\General\search-tool.dll could not be loaded: 'C:\usr\local\lib\audacious\General\search-tool.dll': The specified module could not be found.
ERROR ../src/libaudcore/plugin-load.cc:70 [plugin_load]: C:\usr\local\lib\audacious\General\skins.dll could not be loaded: 'C:\usr\local\lib\audacious\General\skins.dll': The specified module could not be found.
ERROR ../src/libaudcore/plugin-load.cc:70 [plugin_load]: C:\usr\local\lib\audacious\General\statusicon.dll could not be loaded: 'C:\usr\local\lib\audacious\General\statusicon.dll': The specified module could not be found.
ERROR ../src/libaudcore/plugin-load.cc:70 [plugin_load]: C:\usr\local\lib\audacious\Visualization\blur_scope.dll could not be loaded: 'C:\usr\local\lib\audacious\Visualization\blur_scope.dll': The specified module could not be found.
ERROR ../src/libaudcore/plugin-load.cc:70 [plugin_load]: C:\usr\local\lib\audacious\Visualization\cairo-spectrum.dll could not be loaded: 'C:\usr\local\lib\audacious\Visualization\cairo-spectrum.dll': The specified module could not be found.
ERROR ../src/libaudcore/plugin-load.cc:70 [plugin_load]: C:\usr\local\lib\audacious\Visualization\gl-spectrum.dll could not be loaded: 'C:\usr\local\lib\audacious\Visualization\gl-spectrum.dll': The specified module could not be found.

[wmjb]

[radioactiveman]

How did you build Audacious from source? Did you follow the instructions found at https://github.com/audacious-media-player/audacious/tree/master/win32?

[jlindgren90]

"The specified module could not be found" is an unfortunately vague error message but probably means that a DLL from some dependency (for example: FFmpeg) is not found in %PATH%.

It looks like you are starting Audacious from a Windows command prompt, so probably %PATH% is not set to point to all the needed DLLs. The easiest way to fix this is to start Audacious from the same MinGW/MSYS environment you used (presumably) to build it. Otherwise you need to manually set %PATH% in your command prompt.

The pre-built versions of Audacious avoid this issue by including all the needed DLLs in the same folder as audacious.exe.