On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Alan Mead wrote:
> > --- "A.J. Venter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [Alan explains that the install crashes on his new XP machine] > > > Perhaps you should try to run the installer with XP's "windows 98 > > compatibility mode" - should find that under the properties sheet > > for > > the app - there's a '95 mode as well. > > > > I don't know if this will work/help at all, I don't use windows, a > > friend who does pointed it out - but he doesn't code so he > > obviously > > never tried it for FPC. > > This didn't seem to have any effect but when I ran it from a command > window, I could observe an error message so I submitted a bug report: > > http://www.freepascal.org/bugs/showrec.php3?ID=2692 > > Is it terribly difficult to install FPC manually on Win32? Are there > registry settings? Or is it just getting the targets and patterns > right? I still have my old win98 machine that ran FPC reliably... > Could I just copy the relevant directories to my XP machine? Yes. Just copy the c:\pp (or wherever it was installed) directory. The install program just extracts a number of zip files, nothing more, nothing less. Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
