#1891: wingrass: background dosbox from regular wxgui startup
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Reporter: hamish | Owner: grass-dev@…
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: blocker | Milestone: 6.4.3
Component: Default | Version: svn-releasebranch64
Keywords: wingrass | Platform: MSWindows 7
Cpu: x86-64 |
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Comment(by hamish):
Replying to [comment:41 neteler]:
> Replying to [comment:38 hamish]:
> > - ''did you select the box for installing "Important Microsoft
> > runtime dll's"''?
>
> No since I had done this already the last time.
you've got to do it every time. the needed msvcr70.dll & similar are al a
carte in the downloaded tarball, and get installed to C:\Program
Files\GRASS...\extralib, so are install specific, & need to be done for
each time, for each version. AFAIK only the 2010.exe installer puts the
msvcr100.dlls in C:\windows\system32 and so survives. I don't know what
the 2005.exe and 2008.exe installers actually install (but I'd like to).
So the three ms-$year.exe installers run, but also a number of dlls are in
the tarball and copied separately. The three ms-$year installers should
survive reinstall, but don't provide all the Microsoft-provided libraries
we need.
probably(?) there is some other ms redistributable installer which
installs the ones we need system wide, I don't know. note the 80 and 90
msvcr dlls are still missing (see #1428), probably causing breakage once
the fns that need them get called.
I don't like us installing to c:\windows\system32, I'd rather have ms's
installers do that with their full checks, registry registration, and
inside knowledge.
> > (again, if not selected I suspect we need an extra warning installer
page with
> > [<Back<] [>Forward>] buttons to give the user a second opportunity to
select it)
>
> I don't think so:
> I guess I should select it only once (here, done 2 weeks ago, see
ticket),
(nope, every time)
> then the machine should be ok? Otherwise we should always force to
install it
mmph. I don't think we can or should make it mandatory, but we might be
able to change the default on the download page to ticked instead of
unticked.
> if *this* is the problem (cannot test right now).
I'm pretty sure it will be #1428.
another idea is to have a tiny sacrificial osgeo4w program that runs with
a dependency on all dlls used by the core osgeo4w toolchain, and catch the
result so at least there is a nice error message telling you what to do
instead of the not very helpful vanishing box. Who c/would write it? no
idea.
Hamish
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/1891#comment:42>
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