GCstar forums - New installer for Windows' users

As you guessed, these modules are not available for Windows, so it's not a real problem. The DateTime::Format::Strptime one is replaced by Time::Piece. But unfortunately the modules detection doesn't handle properly the alternatives for the moment.

Concerning other ones, there is nothing similar that can be used.

But the path is weird. I'll check that.

For me :
  * from the windows menu, the update doesn't work,
  * from command line launching update.bat it doesn't too
  * from command line launching "perl gcstar -u -n" it works

No trouble Tian !

No I haven't any error message   But I've took a look to process manager and I've seen that gcstar.exe is closed very very quickly ( and no perl process are launched ).

I've got a question : normally in the first 2 test cases I should have a message asking for the proxy ?

tpf wrote:

For me :
  * from the windows menu, the update doesn't work,
  * from command line launching update.bat it doesn't too
  * from command line launching "perl gcstar -u -n" it works

Neither of these work for me. command line
"perl gcstar -u -n" returns: "Can't open perl script "gcstar": No such file or directory"
"perl gcstar.exe -u -n" returns: "Unrecognized character \x90 at gcstar.exe line 1."

Feedback on the installer (I haven't even tried the program yet):

- There is a log of all the activity of the installer, but it disappears as soon as the install is finished, I had no chance to read it. Now I'm quite distressed, I don't know what the install has done to my computer. Has it messed with my GTK+2 global install? Has it installed stuff outside the GCStar directory? Has it created registry keys? Only the log knows, and the log has disappeared. (Other NSIS-based installers usually keep the log until the user clicks a button. And that is why I usually enjoy the NSIS-based installers.) I sincerely hope GStar hasn't installed anything globally in Windows.

- There is check box that tries to make you believe you need to explicitely accept the GPL before you can install the program. This is incorrect. Several projects have removed similar checkboxes, search Google for "windows install accept gpl" to learn more about this topic.

Now, back to trying GCStar. (And I sincerely hope it hasn't messed up my Windows installation.)

Hello,

Thank you for your feedback.

It only installs stuff in GCstar directory. I think NSIS only adds some registry keys to be able to perform uninstall and for the language used during installation.

For other stuff, I am not familiar with Windows as I don't use this system. That's why I am still trying to find someone that could maintain this installer and the Windows' specific stuff. But unfortunately nobody wanted to do that.

Hi,

I'll add it in the next version. But the problem is that it can't be used if the whole Perl environment with all the dependencies has not been installed also.

If you have everything, you should better download the source version :

http://wiki.gcstar.org/fr/Install#telecharger_gcstar

On Windows systems, I think some archiving tools such as Winzip or Winrar should be able to open .tar.gz files.