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Why is there "OpenAL32.dll" in the 64bit builds, this aught to be changed too OpenAL64.dll"
SDL2.dll is not needed anymore either.

Because the official name of that library is OpenAL32.dll even if it was 64bit.

From OpenAL Soft's readme.txt: (note: even the 64-bit DLL should be named OpenAL32.dll)

(05-27-2014, 12:52 PM)gamax92 Wrote: [ -> ]Because the official name of that library is OpenAL32.dll even if it was 64bit.

Minecraft as both OpenAL32.dll and OpenAL64.dll

That seems to be an LWJGL thing. Every result I get on google for OpenAL64.dll involves being stored in a natives or natives/windows folder along with lwjgl related things.
My guess is because all of lwjgl's natives get stored in one folder, and you couldn't have OpenAL32.dll and OpenAL32.dll because name clash.

This is going to blow your mind; the System32 folder has the 64bit files and the SysWOW64 has the 32bit files.

Uh, no. The System32 folder has some X64 files and the rest is X86.

Add: There seems to be a mix of the DLLs of both versions (X64 & X86) on those two folders.

(05-28-2014, 07:08 AM)DJBarry004 Wrote: [ -> ]Uh, no. The System32 folder has some X64 files and the rest is X86.

Add: There seems to be a mix of the DLLs of both versions (X64 & X86) on those two folders.

Wrong again. What lamedude said is right. System32 will have only x64 DLLs and SysWOW64 will have only x86. If a DLL has both a x86 and a x64 version, it'll be present in the two folders...

The WOW64 is shorthand for Windows On Windows 64-bit, so it actually makes some sense that that's where all the backwards-compatibility files would be kept. Why System32 is still called System32, however, is unclear. Maybe they'd hardcoded it in so many places that they couldn't change it.

Well, there used to be "System", back in the 16bit windows days. Then 32bit was an "addon" to windows 98, and the System32 folder was created or something in that process, and the trend just stuck for Windows XP...

...it's just crazy, don't look into it.

Idiots like to hardcode. MS probably did it to avoid my program breaks on Win64 "Nothing’s wrong with it. It compiles" bug reports.