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I use libvlc in very big project, and of course i already have dirs like "plugins", I want to change name of vlc plugins dir to, for example, "vlc_plugins" to avoid of mixing my plugins with vlc plugins. Older versions have "--plugin-path" argument, but now this argument is deprecated. How can i solve this problem in current versions?

PS
my os is win7

You'll have to create a Windows environment variable named VLC_PLUGIN_PATH and set it to your plugin path, e.g. regards
grindstone

It's not work for me

my main executable is msvc project and have different runtime lib from vlc runtime.
when i call putenv("VLC_PLUGIN_PATH=d:\\vlc_plugins"); from msvc project, it's not readen by getenv inside vlc libs ( (i debug it by gdb)
when i call putenv("VLC_PLUGIN_PATH=d:\\vlc_plugins"); from codeblocks project(with mingw), all ok.

It's very frustrated solution use enviroment variables to set so important things as plugins path....

So far, you cannot. You must name it plugins/ next to libvlccore.dll