Re: [Usbpicprog-technical] win7 testing

[Francesco <f18...@ya...>]

Hi,

2010/2/11 Frans Schreuder <fra...@gm...>:
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> yes, that would be a good idea,
ok, done. It looks much more polished now to me ;)

>but it shouldn't be only named amd64, but it
> should also contain something like "win" in its name
well, currently there are "amd64" and "x86" folders in all the
deps,installer,driver subfolders of "win". I think it's clear they're
related to win-only stuff being under "win".

> I have read some forums and blogs about combining 64 and 32 bit in one
> installer, e.g. this one:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1922259/how-to-implement-single-installer-for-32-64-platforms
> and it doesn't seem to be very straightforward. It might save us from a lot
> of headaches to just create two separate installers.
I've played with the idea a bit but you're right. Two different
installers should work just fine after all given the type of users
we're targeting.

>But of course
> installing the driver from the installer would be good.
currently the driver installation is done by the dpinst utility which
Microsoft provides with the WDK and which is specifically designed for
driver installation.

> I think that the average usbpicprog user does have some technical skills,
> they will be at least able to identify whether they have a 64 or 32 bit os.
true...

Anyway I currently have managed to build the installers for 32bit and
64bit versions of upp_wx. They seem to work just fine (tested under
Win7 64bit and WinXP 32bit).
It would be important however to test them on as many systems as
possible. I could upload them to somewhere (e.g. in the webspace of
the SF usbpicprog project?) if someone else wants to test them on
other versions of Windows...

Francesco