[OTR-users] OTR-users Digest, Vol 44, Issue 8

[Ian Goldberg]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:28:01AM -0400, SevenFactors wrote:
> Is anybody else having problems with pidgin-otr 4.0.0-beta2 for windows?
> 
> With pidgin-otr 4.0.0-beta2 installed, Pidgin fails to start. Now,
> when OTR  is removed from the PC, pidgin starts as it should.
> 
> The installer is installing pidgin-otr.dll under the right directory
> C:\Program Files\Pidgin\plugins.
> 
> For testing purposes, I did a manual install of pidgin-otr 4.0.0-beta2
> on PidginPortable and it worked just fine.
> 
> This is under WinXP SP3
> Pidgin Ver. 2.10.4 [desktop]

Try starting pidgin from a terminal with the "-d" (debug) option.  See
if there's a helpful error message.  It's weird that it works when
manually installed, but not when the installer installs it.  Hmm.

   - Ian