[Openal] Linux deployment and OpenAL-Soft

[Jason Daly]

Chris Robinson wrote:
> AFAIK, even with OpenAL32.dll in your apps directory, it'll still search the 
> system directories for extra OpenAL drivers, and I'm not too sure what'll 
> happen if it finds two wrap_oal.dll's (or two uniquely named DLLs that 
> provide the same drivers).
>   

On Windows, the current working directory is always searched first.  The 
biggest drawback to an app-local OpenAL is that the end-user can't 
easily upgrade his/her OpenAL installation by simply running the latest 
Creative installer.  The app-local one will always win out, even if 
there's a newer wrap_oal.dll installed in the system directory.

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