[PD] Troubles running Pd on Windows XP Professional

[Miller Puckette]

Well, I'm pretty sure that neither wish85 nor Pd will run without at least
the dlls shipped in pd/bin.  I'm at a loss to figure out for sure what other
DLLs must be present as well.  It looks like I'd better install a pristine
Windows XP myself - I've asked at school if they have one handy, otherwise
I'll run out and buy one somewhere - ugh!

M

On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 11:19:03PM +0200, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> On Don, 2015-06-25 at 07:54 -0700, Miller Puckette wrote:
> > I'm not sure, but I think that's not a problem...  I dound something about 
> > that here:
> > 
> > http://www.dependencywalker.com/faq.html
> > 
> > (third question in the FAQ).
> > 
> > But meanwhile, is it still the case that wish85.exe can't run on a pristine
> > windows XP machine???
> 
> pd.exe and wish85.exe exit immediately with a non-zero error level. When
> starting wish85.exe, I get three messages in the event viewer:
> 
> #1
> Dependent Assembly Microsoft.VC90.CRT could not be found and Last Error
> was The referenced assembly is not installed on your system.
> 
> #2
> Resolve Partial Assembly failed for Microsoft.VC90.CRT. Reference error
> message: The referenced assembly is not installed on your system.
> 
> #3
> Generate Activation Context failed for c:\puredata\pd-0.46-7test\bin
> \wish85.exe. Reference error message: The operation completed
> successfully.
> 
> 
> When I load wish85.exe on my Windows XP at home (the one missing
> msjava.dll was another machine), those are listed as missing:
> 
> IESHIMS.DLL
> WER.DLL
> 
> Actually, both seem to be related to IE 8 being installed on this
> machine (contrary to the other machine where still IE 6 rules). Also,
> when I load regsvr32.exe I get the same result, which makes me think
> that they can be ignored. The same probably applies to msjava.dll, as
> you already pointed out.
> 
> Then I did, what the fifth paragraph of DependencyWalker's FAQ suggests:
> I loaded regsvr32.exe with DependencyWalker and ran it with wish85.exe
> as argument. Now those DLLs are labeled missing, too:
> 
> MSVCR90.DLL
> TCL85.DLL
> TK85.DLL
> 
> (see: http://www.netpd.org/~roman/tmp/regsvr32_exe_wish85.png )
> 
> Now, I don't know...
> 
> Roman
> 
> 
> 
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