Re: Result: Octave-UPM on Windows :-(

[Philip Nienhuis]

herraiz wrote
> Excerpts from Daniel Carrera's message of Fri Nov 09 16:55:57 +0100 2012:
>> Ok. As promised, today I went to the computer lab and I just spent an
>> hour
>> trying to get Octave-UPM working. Unfortunately, I failed. The culprit
>> was
>> the MVSC100.dll library.
>> 
>> Initially I just installed the main Octave-UPM package and ignored the
>> library (I got the impression that it was "extras", rather than a
>> requirement). After I installed Octave-UPM, Windows refused to run it,
>> complaining about the absence of MVSC100.dll. I tried downloading it
>> online, to no avail. I eventually realized that the libraries link on the
>> Octave-UPM website is an executable that contains this library, so I
>> tried
>> it. The installer ran for a while and then it hanged. I tried other
>> installers that I found online, including Microsoft's website. Some
>> seemed
>> to go the whole way and then fail, others seemed to hang halfway, some
>> complained that I wasn't installing them as administrator, and so on.
> 
> I use Visual Studio to compile everything, so you will need that
> library. I am providing the Microsoft Visual Studio redistributable in
> the same website as the installer, but I think it will require admin
> permissions to install.

FWIW, I found that at work the MSVC2008 runtime needed admin privileges to
get installed, but not MSVC2010.

Philip



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