On Mit, 2015-06-24 at 09:52 -0700, Miller Puckette wrote: > I've been testing Pd vanilla on a windows XP professional machine (shh...) > Perhaps there's some DLL or something that Pd needs that my machine is > supplying - assuming you're still getting the behavior you were earlier: > > spawnl: Invalid argument > C:\pds\pd-043.1test5\bin\wish85.exe: couldn't load TCL > > ...can you try tunning C:\pds\pd-043.1test5\bin\wish85.exe from teh command > line to see what errors you get?
Thanks for pointing me to the right direction. From cmd.exe: ---- C:\puredata\pd-0.43.1test5\bin>wish85.exe The system cannot execute the specified program. C:\puredata\pd-0.43.1test5\bin>echo %errorlevel% 9020 ---- This also wrote messages to the system's event log. Those suggested, that some dlls are missing. It turned out, that msvcr90.dll was missing, which is part of "Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package" [1]. After installing it, Pd could be started. I don't know why some systems have it apparently installed, others don't. The file has a size of 640kB (ought to be enough for everyone). Could it be statically linked so that it works everywhere? (I hope what I am saying does make any sense.) Roman [1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
