i got DOSBox working yesterday and love it (for MOO2). it worked this morning too.

but last night after i exited, the next time i tried to play it said "This application has failed to start because SDL.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem."

i still have the install file i downloaded, so i re-installed it last night and it worked. today tho after the first exit, the error came up again. this time, even re-installing didn't working. i tried a restart, and i tried un-installing DOSBox and re-installing it, i'm having no luck.

in all cases there was in fact a file named SDL.dll in the /dosbox directory. also one named SDL_net.dll. i'm using DOSBox 0.65.

i'm still working to find the issue and a resolution on my own, i'll edit this post as i see new things sort of related to the issue. someone had issues that they had to take away their joystick or something to get SDL to work, i'm not using one and haven't ever had one installed. and for reference the SDL.dll i'm using is dated 2/9/2006, it's just the one that came with the DOSBox download.

i'm lost as to why re-installing worked last night but not today. more than that tho, i'd like to figure out what's causing it so that it stops happening. i did a google search and looked at a lot of posts here (altho 1100 came up on searching "SDL.dll AND found" and i certainly couldn't read all of them. some of what i did see talked about compiling SDL or something that was completely over my head.

can anybody help me? thanks!