[PD-dev] Can anyone on windows 7 confirm TCL bug?

[Roman Haefeli]

On Mon, 2012-02-13 at 17:34 +0100, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 09:18 -0800, Miller Puckette wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 12:12:42PM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Feb 10, 2012, at 4:24 AM, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Hi Miller
> > > > 
> > > > On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 09:21 -0800, Miller Puckette wrote:
> > > >> To Pd dev -
> > > >> 
> > > >> Several of my students have windows 7, on which the TCL line
> > > >> "package require registry" seems to fail (not able to find or load
> > > >> the file tclreg12.dll).  I put a report on Sourceforge:
> > > >> 
> > > >> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3484492&group_id=55736&atid=478070
> > > >> 
> > > >> Woed any of you have ready access to a windows 7 mchine to see if you
> > > >> can replicate this?  I don't have one and it might be a while before I can
> > > >> get hold of one.
> > > > 
> > > > I can confirm this problem. Here is what I get in the Pd-window:
> > > > 
> > > > [snip]---
> > > > 
> > > > This on Windows 7 Enterprise SP1 with Pd-0.43.1.
> > > > 
> > > > I didn't have time to 'play' with the problem. If there is anything
> > > > specific I can test, please let me know.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Can you tell me if Pd-extended 0.43 is also affected?
> > > 
> > > .hc
> > > 
> > 
> > I don't know - I'll e-mail one of the reporting students and see if I
> > can find out.
> 
> 
> I tested with Pd-0.43.1-extended-20120201 on the same machine and it
> does _not_ expose that behaviour. I can create new patches, save and
> close them and re-open them without any errors.

It seems the file that it complains about (tclreg12.dll) seems simply
missing in the archive. Copying the file from the Pd-extended
installation to <pd-install>/lib/tcl8.5/reg fixes the problem. 

Also it seems, that this file has been missing since the switch from
Tcl/Tk 8.4 to 8.5 for the Windows release. pd-0.43-1test4.msw.zip
doesn't suffer from that problem, because it is still using 8.4.
pd-0.43-1test5.msw.zip seems to be the first Version with 8.5 and this
version is already missing the dll file. It seems that noone really
tested those releases on Windows 7 :-(

Now, that I think more about it: If the file is _really_ missing in the
archive, how comes that it works on Windows XP? I can't test right now,
but could it be that this file is somehow hidden only on Win7, but not
on WinXP? Strange.. Unfortunately, I know too little about
Windows ... :-/


Roman