On 12 Apr 2008, at 5:27, Michael Sweet wrote:
> No, you can't "make install" on Windows. It isn't supported and
> won't work.
With Msys/mingw it is supported, and it does work - except for the
specific case that Brian has triggered on Vista.
There's a problem with the way that Vista UAC reacts to some of the
executables bundled with the Msys "current" release (Msys 1.0.10),
specifically install.exe, install-info.exe and patch.exe.
Now install-info I can live without, but install and patch are
important.
(Note: rumour has it that these issues are addressed in the Msys
"Technology Preview" tree, but for folk like me who like to follow
"current" that's not always an option. I think Brian's in broadly the
same position.)
However: All is not lost, it seems there is an easy workaround.
The trick seems to be to give the aberrant exe's a stub manifest
file, and then everything just works. I got access to a Vista box
today to try this, and it appears to work well. I guess the technique
may even be useful for fixing other tricky exe's on Vista (like a
fltk-config --post option for Vista, if it proves to be necessary
longer term...)
Anyway, here's the trick.
Say you want to fix patch.exe to run, you make a file called
patch.exe.manifest, in the Msys /bin directory, alongside patch.exe,
then "touch patch.exe". After that, patch works fine without
permission issues (ditto install.exe and install-info.exe, and
presumably others.)
Worked well for me - should hopefully work for everyone else too, if
they need it.
Here's what goes in the manifest stub:
-------------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1"
manifestVersion="1.0">
<v3:trustInfo xmlns:v3="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3">
<v3:security>
<v3:requestedPrivileges>
<v3:requestedExecutionLevel level="asInvoker" />
</v3:requestedPrivileges>
</v3:security>
</v3:trustInfo>
</assembly>
-------------
Hope that proves useful,
--
Ian
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