[bug] 32-bit POC3 fails to start on Windows XP

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• Technologov Member Posts: 102 ✭✭

  March 2014

  NOTE: It works on Windows 7 x64. (not tried Win7 32-bit yet)

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• aatkin Member Posts: 75 ✭✭

  March 2014

  What is the actual message? There is a specific Win32 binary now available.

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• Technologov Member Posts: 102 ✭✭

  March 2014

  AlethZero.exe is not a valid Win32 application. (I use the "Win32\AlethZero.exe" from POC3)

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• aatkin Member Posts: 75 ✭✭

  March 2014

  Hmm, sorry I can't test it as I'm on a 64bit laptop. I think there are folks that'll also help debug. Wonder if it's an XP issue, do you think 32 bit might run on Win7?

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• Technologov Member Posts: 102 ✭✭

  March 2014

  It is possible to run Windows XP in VM (VirtualBox/VMware)

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• StephanTual London, EnglandMember, Moderator Posts: 1,282 mod

  March 2014

  Try cpp-ethereum-vs2013-20140304125855-0.3.11-80dae0.7z - uploaded on code.ethereum.org just this morning.

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• Technologov Member Posts: 102 ✭✭

  March 2014

  Still same error. (using cpp-ethereum-vs2013-20140304010047-0.3.11-02f843.7z, could not find "20140304125855")

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• StephanTual London, EnglandMember, Moderator Posts: 1,282 mod

  March 2014

  We've just pushed another one - make sure you clear everything from your directories too - sadly I'm not on Windows so I cannot test.
  

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• aatkin Member Posts: 75 ✭✭

  March 2014

  @Ursium? I want to thank you for coordinating with the devs and for the quick turnaround. POC3 C++ Win64 is much better and more polished than POC2.
  
  Is there a dev mailing list or digest I can join? Many thanks!

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• Fanya Member Posts: 2 ✭

  March 2014

  I find the same problem(AlethZero.exe is not a valid Win32 application) with cpp-ethereum-vs2013-20140304125855-0.3.11-80dae0.7z on Win xp 32-bit.
  While it runs well on WIn7 32b-it.

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• programmerTim Member Posts: 4 ✭

  March 2014

  Microsoft dropped support for XP with Visual Studio 2012, although they later added it back again it's not enabled by default. I'll see if it's possible to use the XP compatible toolset for cpp-ethereum.

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• Technologov Member Posts: 102 ✭✭

  March 2014

  Please. Microsoft dropped Windows XP, but there are like 300 million XP users worldwide (including 2 PCs here).

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• esteban Member Posts: 19 ✭

  March 2014

  On windows 7, 32 bits, my problem is that there is a window that open but it closes instantly. I can that it starts GUI but nothing more ????

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• programmerTim Member Posts: 4 ✭

  March 2014

  @Technologov? Fixing XP support in VS builds will probably have to wait for now. I suspect the MinGW builds for windows will already work ok though if you are able to compile your own builds (we might be able to publish these somewhere).

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• programmerTim Member Posts: 4 ✭

  March 2014

  @esteban Are you running eth.exe or alethzero.exe? Presumably the one in the Win32 folder?

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• esteban Member Posts: 19 ✭

  March 2014

  @programmerTim?
  After the installation of Poc3 windows, I had to install libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll and libgmp-10.dll. Those files are now copied in the system32 dir. The file installed to run poc3 is Ethereum.exe. I tried to remove firewall but same thing, the "DOS" windows open but it closes instantly after half a second. Something's happening but not much !! Thanks

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• Technologov Member Posts: 102 ✭✭

  March 2014

  Look, Windows XP has between 100 million and 300 million users (depends on statistics source), so yeah, IMO it is important to fix. (even if going to older VS)

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• esteban Member Posts: 19 ✭

  March 2014

  @programmerTim For more info, on that instant pop window, I can read: "qwindowslcontext.cpp:1110: get procadress: unable to resolve 'glbindframebuffers OES'....ARB' ... EXT... and so on Thanks

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• esteban Member Posts: 19 ✭

  March 2014

  @programmerTim Solved ! That was an old version of my video card driver. Just updated and it works. Thank you

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