Executable problem - correction

Gib Bogle g.bogle at auckland.no.spam.ac.nz
Thu Feb 25 01:53:37 EST 2010


Sean DiZazzo wrote:
> On Feb 24, 9:22 pm, Gib Bogle <g.bo... at auckland.no.spam.ac.nz> wrote:
>> The program doesn't fail with the write error on the other XP machine, it
>> actually fails to execute at all, complaining about the configuration
>> information.  Therefore I'm seeing different behaviour on three XP machines:
>>
>> Box 1 (SP2): runs OK
>> Box 2 (SP3): fails to start
>> Box 3 (SP3): starts up, all Qt stuff works, fails after invoking the Fortran DLL
>>
>> Just to add to the confusion, execution is successful on a Windows 7 box.
>>
>> I forgot to mention that the laptop on which the program was built (and where it
>> runs OK) is using Vista.  I now see that it will probably be necessary to build
>> separate Vista and XP versions - I should have realized this earlier, but was
>> misled by the fact that the Vista-built program runs OK on my XP SP2 box.
> 
> Did you compile the program with python 2.6?  Try compiling with 2.5.
> 
> ~Sean

I'll have to check with Helvin, but I believe 2.6 was needed for the version of 
PyQt that she has installed.



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