Re: [Usbpicprog-technical] win7 testing

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

Hi,

2010/2/15 Frans Schreuder <fra...@gm...>:
> Francesco wrote:
>>
>> done!
>>
>> Later I'll write an email to the upp mailing list to ask for testing of:
>> http://usbpicprog.org/downloads/UsbPicProg-amd64-0.3.0.exe
>> http://usbpicprog.org/downloads/UsbPicProg-x86-0.3.0.exe
>>
> I've tried the x86 version on Win XP, but no success (it causes an
> exception with something like kernel32.dll and then libusb-1.0.dll)
very strange. Is it a WinXP without Service Packs installed?
Tomorrow (evening) I'll have a chance to test the installer on a
relatively vanilla WinXP installation (so far I've tested only on the
machine I use for programming and where I did miscellaneous driver
tests). I'll let you know what I get.

> Have you compiled it on Windows 7 amd64?
>or how did you compile it?
yes, I cross-compiled it for x86 from Win7 amd64 using MSVC++ 2008.
I used the "Static Release Multilib" configuration and built all
dependencies in release mode and with /MD option.

> Also the location of the .mo files is not correct, for example the file
> nl.mo should be installed as
> Program Files\Usbpicprog\po\nl\LC_MESSAGES\usbpicprog.mo
> in stead of just po\nl.mo
ouch, sorry.
I've fixed this now and uploaded corrected installers at:
http://usbpicprog.org/downloads/UsbPicProg-amd64-0.3.0.exe
http://usbpicprog.org/downloads/UsbPicProg-x86-0.3.0.exe

>> Another solution could be to ask to the user (on 64bit window
>> versions) if he wants to put his Windows in testsigning mode directly
>> from the installer (I've found that the ppjoy programmer's is doing
>> something like that:
>> http://ppjoy.blogspot.com/2009/12/new-installer-feature.html)...
>>
>
> sounds great,
ok, I will see to implement it in the weekend...

>I think I will also have to run a virtual machine with
> win7 amd64
note however that you cannot run a 64bit OS in a virtual machine
hosted on a 32bit OS (only the viceversa is possible)...

Francesco