[bt-devel] BT doesn't start on WinXP

[Gary Holmlund]

Eeli Kaikkonen wrote:
> Lainaus Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com>:
>
>> Eeli,
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Eeli Kaikkonen
>> <eekaikko at mail.student.oulu.fi> wrote:
>>> I just installed BT with Windows installer on another XP. When I try to
>>> start it, Windows gives message "Program cannot be started" (or 
>>> something
>>> similar, it's in Finnish) in command line, or "Starting application 
>>> failed,
>>> because application configuration [how it is put together] is 
>>> erroneous" in
>>> GUI.
>>
>> This is Microsoft secret code language designed to confuse the user
>> and irritate the developer.  It means simply that the required
>> redistributable libraries were not installed.  If you note Gary and my
>> messages from last night, you'll see I had the same problem.  At CMake
>> time, you have to download a file which installs the VS
>> redistributables and provide the path to that program to CMake before
>> you create the vcproj files.  More details about it are in our
>> discussion from last night.
>>
>
> But I used the prebuilt package from sourcearchives.com. Maybe there 
> is still some dll which other systems had but this one doesn't have.
>
> --Eeli Kaikkonen
Open the bibletime.exe with depends.exe and it should tell you if there 
are missing dll's
http://www.dependencywalker.com/

Gary