Re: [ANN] Windows MSI Installer for PUC-Lua - Proof Of Concept

[KHMan <keinhong@...>]

On 5/18/2017 12:30 AM, Russell Haley wrote:
> I also wonder out loud if this in all academic now with Linux
> Subsystem for Windows?

Everybody who wants a Linux-like environment is already on Cygwin.

Even if Microsoft is completely honest this time, big corporations 
have a tendency to lose interest and then you're out of luck. Or a 
VP may want to show off his/her management skills and 
'rationalize' things, 'sunset' some projects.

We'll be stuck with compiling for legacy 32-bit Win32 for a long 
long long... a super long time. Even after so many years of 64 bit 
Windows, plenty of stuff have not moved to 64 bits executables.

> On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 9:25 AM, Scott Morgan wrote:
> > On 05/17/2017 05:06 PM, KHMan wrote:
> > > Often on MSYS or MSYS2 compiled executables would run, and then on
> > > Command Prompt it will fail to start. My usual rule is that when the
> > > executable is to run outside of the MSYS or MSYS2 environment, copy it
> > > out and test it on Command Prompt to make sure it has all the DLLs it
> > > needs.
> >
> > Dependency Walker is handy for seeing what DLLs are required for an EXE.
> > http://www.dependencywalker.com/
> >
> > A bit like the ldd command in Linux.
> >
> > Scott

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Selangor, Malaysia