Re: E 0.9.3 release?
Thomas Leonard <[email protected]>
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On 2 January 2011 06:12, Mark Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Thomas, > In order to warm up the old release muscles, I tried building a new 0.9.3a > candidate on Windows <http://www.erights.org/download/0-9-3/>. (E does not > cross build. The binary for each platform must be built on that platform.) [...] > Windows Vista or 7 problems (i.e., since Windows XP): > I can build E fine on Windows 7. However, when I try to install it on > Windows 7, I get a bunch of (quite sensible) permissions violation errors > when I try to manipulate the registry. No annoying Windows 7 "do you really > mean it?" monologue boxes, just errors. However, when I install this same > binary on Windows XP, it works as well as it always did. > > If anyone knows of a simple fix to get old cygwin/gcc C code for > manipulating the XP registry to work again on Windows 7, please let me know. > Assuming this doesn't work out easily, I'm inclined to pull all the registry > magic from the E installation. Would this inconvenience anyone? Does anyone > still care about, for example, the binding of the ".e" extension to the E > launching behavior? That's no problem for us. I hadn't even realised there was a Windows installer! I've seen Windows devs at work install E, and as I recall the steps they use are: 1. unpack the E release zip archive somewhere 2. set the E_HOME system variable to that location 3. replace swt.jar with a different one (64-bit issue?) Programs are always run using a .bat file launcher because there are always arguments to pass (to set the Java memory limits and add extra jars to classpath). -- Dr Thomas Leonard http://0install.net/ GPG: 9242 9807 C985 3C07 44A6 8B9A AE07 8280 59A5 3CC1 GPG: DA98 25AE CAD0 8975 7CDA BD8E 0713 3F96 CA74 D8BA _______________________________________________ e-lang mailing list [email protected] http://www.eros-os.org/mailman/listinfo/e-lang