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XP=extreme pain in the butt

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Alan Mead

Is there a win32 binary install kit for Lazarus? I see hints that Lazarus runs on Win32 but the download folders for Win32 are empty. (Apologies if I'm not supposed to ask about Lazarus here...)

So I fetched the latest FPC win32 full install ZIP from the US mirror but when I clicked on the install, I saw a screen that was basically blank (blue background, some top bar and bottom bar text, but nothing inside). Then it disappeared. Each subsequent double-click just disappeared very quickly. I don't see anything like install.exe running in the taskmanager. Any ideas? FPC installed fine on windows 98...

I have a cheap eMachines XP 2400+ (i.e., 2GHz) Athalon XP machine (you know, the one that runs slow as a dog...)

Thanks!

-Alan

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A.J. Venter
to Alan Mead

Perhaps you should try to run the installer with XP's "windows 98 compatibility mode" - should find that under the properties sheet for the app - there's a '95 mode as well.

I don't know if this will work/help at all, I don't use windows, a friend who does pointed it out - but he doesn't code so he obviously never tried it for FPC.

Ciao
A.J.

Alan Mead wrote 27 lines
Is there a win32 binary install kit for Lazarus? I see hints that Lazarus runs on Win32 but the download folders for Win32 are empty. (Apologies if I'm not supposed to ask about Lazarus here...) So I fetched the latest FPC win32 full install ZIP from the US mirror but when I clicked on the install, I saw a screen that was basically blank (blue background, some top bar and bottom bar text, but nothing inside). Then it disappeared. Each subsequent double-click just disappeared very quickly. I don't see anything like install.exe running in the taskmanager. Any ideas? FPC installed fine on windows 98... I have a cheap eMachines XP 2400+ (i.e., 2GHz) Athalon XP machine (you know, the one that runs slow as a dog...) Thanks! -Alan __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
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Matt Emson
to A.J. Venter

I have installed under XP pro with no issues I recall. Turn off the eye candy stuff - that might help. Also try installing the Service Pack if you have not already done so.

Matt

Alan Mead
to A.J. Venter: Perhaps you should try to run the installer with XP's "windows 98 compatibility mode" -…

--- "A.J. Venter" wrote:

[Alan explains that the install crashes on his new XP machine]

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Perhaps you should try to run the installer with XP's "windows 98 compatibility mode" - should find that under the properties sheet for the app - there's a '95 mode as well. I don't know if this will work/help at all, I don't use windows, a friend who does pointed it out - but he doesn't code so he obviously never tried it for FPC.

This didn't seem to have any effect but when I ran it from a command window, I could observe an error message so I submitted a bug report:

http://www.freepascal.org/bugs/showrec.php3?ID=2692

Is it terribly difficult to install FPC manually on Win32? Are there registry settings? Or is it just getting the targets and patterns right? I still have my old win98 machine that ran FPC reliably... Could I just copy the relevant directories to my XP machine?

-Alan

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Michael Van Canneyt
to Alan Mead
Alan Mead wrote 24 lines
--- "A.J. Venter" wrote: [Alan explains that the install crashes on his new XP machine] > Perhaps you should try to run the installer with XP's "windows 98 > compatibility mode" - should find that under the properties sheet > for > the app - there's a '95 mode as well. > > I don't know if this will work/help at all, I don't use windows, a > friend who does pointed it out - but he doesn't code so he > obviously > never tried it for FPC. This didn't seem to have any effect but when I ran it from a command window, I could observe an error message so I submitted a bug report: http://www.freepascal.org/bugs/showrec.php3?ID=2692 Is it terribly difficult to install FPC manually on Win32? Are there registry settings? Or is it just getting the targets and patterns right? I still have my old win98 machine that ran FPC reliably... Could I just copy the relevant directories to my XP machine?

Yes. Just copy the c:\pp (or wherever it was installed) directory. The install program just extracts a number of zip files, nothing more, nothing less.

Michael.