Ocean Optics OmniDriver Install - Manual (Page 3)

OmniDriver Installation Instructions
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Caution
Be very careful to follow these steps precisely. Improper or incomplete installation of
OmniDriver can result in obscure failures in your OmniDriver-based application.
► Procedure
Download OmniDriverSPAM_yyyy.mm.dd_LegacyWin32.zip and follow these steps.
1. Unzip OmniDriverSPAM_yyyy.mm.dd_LegacyWin32.zip to a new location on your C: drive. This will
create a directory named OmniDriverSPAM.yyyy.mm.dd and several subdirectories (docs, include,
OOI_HOME, redistribution, samples, etc.).
2. Update your OOI_HOME environment variable to point to the newly created OOI_HOME directory. For
example, if you unzipped the files to
C:\OmniDriverSPAM.yyyy.mm.dd, you should set the OOI_HOME environment variable to
“C:\OmniDriverSPAM.yyyy.mm.dd\OOI_HOME”.
To set the environment variable:
a. Go to the Control Panel and click on the System icon.
b. Click on the Advanced tab.
c. Click on the Environment Variables button.
d. In the System Variables list, find (or create) the OOI_HOME variable and set its value appropriately.
3. Make sure the new OOI_HOME directory is in the system PATH. To do this in Windows:
a. Go to the Control Panel and click on the System icon.
b. Click on the Advanced tab.
c. Click on the Environment Variables button
d. In the "System Variables" list, find the PATH variable and prepend %OOI_HOME%; to its current
value.
4. Register the new DLLs:
a. Open a Command Prompt window.
b. Cd into the new OOI_HOME directory.
c. Type the command: regsvr32 OmniDriver32.dll.
d. Type the command: regsvr32 SPAM32.dll.
If the registration processes are successful, a small popup window will appear after 10-15 seconds
indicating that the DLL was registered.
5. Install the USB driver and device information files:
a. Copy *.sys from the Redistribution directory to c:\windows\system32\drivers.
b. Copy *.inf from the Redistribution directory to c:\Windows\inf.
After you have finished installing OmniDriver, you must also install Java on your PC. See Installing Java
for details on how to install the required version of Java.
6. After OmniDriver and Java have been installed, you should run the OmniDoctor application to verify that
everything has been installed successfully. If OmniDriver has not been installed correctly, your
OmniDriver applications will not run properly and it may be difficult to diagnose the cause of the failure.
Thus, it is especially important to run OmniDoctor after manually installing OmniDriver on Windows
2000. See
Running the OmniDoctor Verification Utility .
Installing on a Mac Platform
OmniDriver for Mac OSX is distributed as a disk image file.