I have encountered a slightly strange issue with building the windows
self-extracting installer release of ghostscript (http://www.ghostscript.com/)
- the self-extracting installer is created with the winzip self-extractor
package, which can be manually unzipped.
The curious thing is that I can build the self-extracting installer under
32-bit wine with the win 7 SDK (on 64-bit linux). but when I tried to run the
self-installer under Vista, it says %1 is not a valid win32 application.
Manually unpacking the selft-extracting installer and run 'setupgs.exe' (the
setup program) also gives 'setupgs.ese is not a valid win32 application'
message. But the main ghostcript executable seems operational. (the setup
program mostly only just copy the extracted files to "Program Files" and set up
a few registry entries, but ghostscript doesn't not require those to work).
So it seems that setupgs.exe is mis-compiled under wine with win7 sdk but just
happened to also work under wine. Any idea how it might happen?
I have checked things like end-of-line, but it is curious why the setupgs
program works under wine but not in vista, the reverse situation compared to
most.
