For the record: Version 1.11 .msi installer works fine and I tested the "do
not abort on error" feature with a couple of test cases (open files, illegal
filenames), and it works as expected.
However: for anyone who (for some strange reason like my own) wants to get
out of "DLL hell", I have what is essentially version 1.11 compiling with
VS8.
2008/6/27 Julian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Yep, the problem seems to be with something called WinSxS (side by side)
> that's handled by the msi. (it looks horrible).
>
> Any chance of making available the compiled exe before it is bundled into
> the msi? It should work like that I guess.. I think it would make things
> much simpler with my setup.
>
> Thanks
> Julian
>
> 2008/6/26 Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Julian wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Shachar.. hope I'm not disturbing your vacation... if so, you may
>>> ignore this until you return, as it is not really urgent!
>>>
>> Allow me to reassure you that, urgent or not, I would never interrupt my
>> vacation for such a thing. That's why it's called "vacation".
>>
>>>
>>> Anyway I noticed that on Windows:
>>> if I copy the new rsyncrypto.exe file (V1.11) into a directory with all
>>> my scripts etc..(without installing the msi) I get a "The system cannot
>>> execute the specified program" error at the command line.
>>>
>>> A quick google search shows that this is generally a DLL problem.. I
>>> noticed the argtable2.dll is newer than previous versions (and smaller in
>>> size), but copying this over does not fix the problem.
>>>
>>> What does fix the problem is installing the msi into "Program
>>> Files\Rsyncrypto"...
>>> now the "other" exe now begins to work from the original place...
>>> Uninstall the msi and the problem returns.
>>>
>>> For information purposes, can you inform me of the exact dependencies of
>>> the "rsyncrypto.exe" program to run?
>>> Apologies if this has been implied from the previous posts about
>>> upgrading to the new Visual Studio etc...
>>>
>> One of the great tragedies of the way Visual Studio is increasingly
>> behaving is that it doesn't matter whether you wrote the program or not. You
>> still don't understand its requirements. Visual Studio calculates them
>> automatically for you and leaves you out of the picture.
>>
>> I don't know why it didn't work for you. Maybe some internal MSI
>> dependencies, maybe something else. Whatever it is, I have given up fighting
>> it.
>>
>> Shachar
>>
>
>
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