2012/9/14 Andrew Pennebaker <andrew.penneba...@gmail.com>: >> It did work perfectly on my Win7 laptop. >> You might want to have"administrator privileges whilst installing >> (IIRC modifying the global PATH variable requires administrator >> privileges). > > > I do have administrator privileges, and the installer could be built to > modify the user's PATH variable instead of the system global PATH variable. > Not sure which one the installer currently tries. If the installer does need > to modify system global PATH, and it failed to do so, it should display an > error message about this. > In that case is modfies the user's path variable.
> here's the possibility that with your previous experience using Free Pascal, > you happened to manually modify PATH at some point, and then ran the Free > Pascal installer. Can you help us rule this out by temporarily removing the > Free Pascal binaries from your PATH, rerunning the installer, and verifying > that the installer really does modify PATH? In particular, could you paste > the results of echo %PATH% before and after you rerun the installer? Well, I just checked: http://svn.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/trunk/install/fpc.ist?view=annotate&root=fpcbuild around line 253 and further. It matches my experience. Maybe you are using Windows ME or older windows versions. Vincent _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
