Hi, The VC runtime is necessary for installing UWIN binaries. After you can recompile everything with another compilator.
I had the same problem before I read that UWIN binaries were constructed with MSVC so they won't autoextract without MSVC runtime. Pierre Brochard On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 01:38:07PM -0700, michael lindenmeyer wrote: > I prefer to stay as far away from MS software as possible. I tried downloading > VC++, and it was an absolute disaster. If I can use mingw, borland or gnu I > will, However, I will not use any MS software. > Thanks for the advice. I abandoned borland since it uses slightly different > command options. I am working with mingw now and want to see if there is a > difference between runnnig the mingw sed and the uwin sed, and then to look ad > differences between ksh and bash. > 090330.1538 > > --- On Mon, 3/30/09, Pierre Brochard <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Pierre Brochard <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [uwin-users] more uwin installation problems > To: "michael lindenmeyer" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Date: Monday, March 30, 2009, 10:08 AM > > > Hi, > > Just in case : > > Do you have runtime for MSVC++ 2005 or do you have this compilator ? > Runtime is vcredist_x86.exe for 2005 version form the microsoft site. > > The install need vc runtimes. > > Pierre Brochard > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 06:35:38PM -0700, michael lindenmeyer wrote: > > Tried installation as administrator, in safe and regular mode with all > > anti-virus software turned off, and still get: > > ---- > > > > UWIN installation failed with exit status 256 > > > > ---- > > Is there something missing?? > > MEL > > 090324.2036 > > > _______________________________________________ > > uwin-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/uwin-users > > -- ,----------------------------------------------------------------------. | Pierre Brochard | e-mail : [email protected] | |----------------------------------------------------------------------| | PGP fingerprint : C87C 803E 62C0 AEC4 AD34 FA1B 2073 803C 8BA0 ED4E | `----------------------------------------------------------------------' _______________________________________________ uwin-users mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/uwin-users
