On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 5:42 AM, TK Soh <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:31 AM, TK Soh <[email protected]> wrote: >> I wanted to run Tortoisehg 1.1.2 on an older XP SP2 box, which I have >> no admin permission, hence I can't install from the installer. As a >> workaround, I copied the TortoiseHg directory from my laptop computer >> (running SP3) to the SP2 box and hope to run it out of the directory, >> but it was unable to execute hg.exe and hgtk.exe (the bundled >> kdiff3.exe and TortoisePlink.exe were able to execute). I suspect the >> MSVC 2008 library is needed, but as I am unable to install it, I can't >> really confirm. >> >> Just to get things going, I tried the same approach with TortoiseHg >> 0.8.3, and this time hg.exe and hgtk.exe work without any issue so >> far. But I'd really like to use the new GUI from 1.1.2. Any pointers? > > BTW, does the 1.1.2 installer allow to install on system that we don't > have admin permission? Naturally we won't be able to use the overlay > icons and context menus, but having hg and hgtk will be good enough.
It requires admin privilidges because it is installing the MSVC 2008 redist libraries that Python 2.6 requires. So to use it standalone you need to find those correct DLLs and copy them into your folder, or install the redist package from Microsoft. -- Steve Borho ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Tortoisehg-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tortoisehg-discuss
