I also agree with Michel; I wouldn't invest a lot of effort in making it run on W7. The 32-bit executable ran fine, so there's a easy workaround.
-Alan On 7/20/2020 8:01 AM, Harry Thijssen wrote: > Hi > > Thanks for the reports. > > I did some testing on MSWindows 7 and can reproduce GDI32.dll issue. > Strange enough if the 32 bit build works on the same MSWindows 64 > environment. The same problem exists at least from the start of this > year. As Michel already pointed out there are reports of the same > issue with other software from years ago. > It looks as a Microsoft bug. > > >Is there something new to the Adwaita icons? The install slows down > 99% and crawls when it gets to that. > > I can't reproduce this. Basically it is an unzip of the files, so I > don't see a reason to slow down. > > >Also, I don;t know anything about the mechanics of Windows 7 > software, but newly installed software usually is highlighted in the > start menu, but PSPP was not. I verified that the executables were all > modified today, so I think they are the correct ones (I'm not > reporting on an earlier/flawed versio > > The menu is just a list of links. I will investigate, but it is not > high on my priority list. > > Stay save > > > > > > Op zo 19 jul. 2020 om 23:23 schreef Michel Boaventura > <michel.boavent...@protonmail.com > <mailto:michel.boavent...@protonmail.com>>: > > I've tried the 64bits version and everything worked without a > problem. I'm using Windows 10 for the tests. It seems this is a > problem caused by both 64bits and Windows 7, as I could find other > errors in other projects, like: > https://github.com/lightspark/lightspark/issues/454 > > Since Windows 7 is no longer supported, maybe one of our > dependencies dropped suport for it? > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > On Sunday, July 19, 2020 4:38 PM, Alan Mead <am...@alanmead.org > <mailto:am...@alanmead.org>> wrote: > >> Harry, >> >> The 64-bit version won't start on my 64-bit Windows 7: >> >> >> >> Also, I don;t know anything about the mechanics of Windows 7 >> software, but newly installed software usually is highlighted in >> the start menu, but PSPP was not. I verified that the executables >> were all modified today, so I think they are the correct ones >> (I'm not reporting on an earlier/flawed version). >> >> I'm installing the 32-bit version now... >> >> -Alan >> >> >> On 7/19/2020 7:29 AM, Harry Thijssen wrote: >>> Hi >>> >>> On >>> >>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/pspp4windows/files/2020-07-17-ForTestingOnly/ >>> is a test version for MSWindows available. >>> >>> Stay save >> >> -- >> >> Alan D. Mead, Ph.D. >> President, Talent Algorithms Inc. >> >> science + technology = better workers >> >> http://www.alanmead.org >> >> >> If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve >> as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and >> imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them >> in myself. >> >> -- Confucius, Confucian Analects >> >> >> > -- Alan D. Mead, Ph.D. President, Talent Algorithms Inc. science + technology = better workers http://www.alanmead.org If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself. -- Confucius, Confucian Analects
