Re: Win Installer problem with large paths

2014-03-30 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 30.03.2014 23:57, schrieb Uwe Stöhr: Am 30.03.2014 22:13, schrieb Vincent van Ravesteijn: Yes, it works. Great. However, NSIS gets now permanently broken:... I found now the reason - one needs admin privileges when compiling NSIS scripts. With admin permissions one can compile as normal

Re: Win Installer problem with large paths

2014-03-30 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 30.03.2014 22:21, schrieb Vincent van Ravesteijn: Stunningly, the setting of MikTeX is changed from "Ask me before installing packages" to "Yes, install packages on the fly". It would be nice to reset this setting to the value it had before the installer overruled it. The installer can re

Re: Win Installer problem with large paths

2014-03-30 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 30.03.2014 22:13, schrieb Vincent van Ravesteijn: Yes, it works. Great. However, NSIS gets now permanently broken: I have first to install the normal NSIS 2.4.6 then I have to open makensisw and while having makensisw open I have to replace makensis.exe by the one for long paths. I also

Re: Win Installer problem with large paths

2014-03-30 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 30.03.2014 22:17, schrieb Vincent van Ravesteijn: Yes, now MikTeX is found, but I'm now irritated that the installer starts installing MikTeX packages even if I said "No" when it asked me to check for MikTeX updates I cannot reproduce that. Is this bug only in my latest installer (with the

Re: Win Installer problem with large paths

2014-03-30 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Vincent van Ravesteijn schreef op 30-3-2014 22:17: Yes, now MikTeX is found, but I'm now irritated that the installer starts installing MikTeX packages even if I said "No" when it asked me to check for MikTeX updates, _and_ while I've told MikTeX to ask me before automatically installing pack

Re: Win Installer problem with large paths

2014-03-30 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Uwe Stöhr schreef op 30-3-2014 5:44: Am 27.03.2014 23:50, schrieb Vincent van Ravesteijn: The problem is that NSIS has a maximum string length of 1024 characters (including \r\n). My Path variable is longer than 1024, so ReadRegStr returns an empty string. See http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Spe

Re: Win Installer problem with large paths

2014-03-30 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Uwe Stöhr schreef op 30-3-2014 5:44: Am 27.03.2014 23:50, schrieb Vincent van Ravesteijn: The problem is that NSIS has a maximum string length of 1024 characters (including \r\n). My Path variable is longer than 1024, so ReadRegStr returns an empty string. See http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Spe

Re: Win Installer problem with large paths

2014-03-29 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 27.03.2014 23:50, schrieb Vincent van Ravesteijn: The problem is that NSIS has a maximum string length of 1024 characters (including \r\n). My Path variable is longer than 1024, so ReadRegStr returns an empty string. See http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Special_Builds#Large_strings how you can

Re: Win Installer problem with large paths

2014-03-27 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 28.03.2014 00:13, schrieb Vincent van Ravesteijn: 1282 characters. Not extremely large mine was almost as large. Poser! ;-) Uwe

Re: Win Installer problem with large paths

2014-03-27 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Uwe Stöhr schreef op 28-3-2014 0:11: Am 28.03.2014 00:04, schrieb Vincent van Ravesteijn: Hmm. you should have mentioned that to the reporters in bug #8570 ;). I did not think that this is be the problem. While looking at the bug again now I see that http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/8570#commen

Re: Win Installer problem with large paths

2014-03-27 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 28.03.2014 00:04, schrieb Vincent van Ravesteijn: Hmm. you should have mentioned that to the reporters in bug #8570 ;). I did not think that this is be the problem. While looking at the bug again now I see that http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/8570#comment:13 has an extremely large PATH. How

Re: Win Installer problem with large paths

2014-03-27 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Uwe Stöhr schreef op 28-3-2014 0:02: Am 27.03.2014 23:50, schrieb Vincent van Ravesteijn: To solve your MiKTeX recognition error, can you please send me the content of your registry entry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment "Path" Well, I assur

Re: Win Installer problem with large paths

2014-03-27 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 27.03.2014 23:50, schrieb Vincent van Ravesteijn: To solve your MiKTeX recognition error, can you please send me the content of your registry entry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment "Path" Well, I assure you that miktex is in the path I wa

Win Installer problem with large paths

2014-03-27 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Uwe Stöhr schreef op 27-3-2014 22:20: To solve your MiKTeX recognition error, can you please send me the content of your registry entry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment "Path" Well, I assure you that miktex is in the path, but I've debugged t