On Mit, 2015-06-24 at 09:52 -0700, Miller Puckette wrote:
I've been testing Pd vanilla on a windows XP professional machine (shh...) Perhaps there's some DLL or something that Pd needs that my machine is supplying - assuming you're still getting the behavior you were earlier:
spawnl: Invalid argument C:\pds\pd-043.1test5\bin\wish85.exe: couldn't load TCL
...can you try tunning C:\pds\pd-043.1test5\bin\wish85.exe from teh command line to see what errors you get?
Thanks for pointing me to the right direction. From cmd.exe:
C:\puredata\pd-0.43.1test5\bin>wish85.exe The system cannot execute the specified program.
C:\puredata\pd-0.43.1test5\bin>echo %errorlevel% 9020
This also wrote messages to the system's event log. Those suggested, that some dlls are missing. It turned out, that msvcr90.dll was missing, which is part of "Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package" [1]. After installing it, Pd could be started.
I don't know why some systems have it apparently installed, others don't.
The file has a size of 640kB (ought to be enough for everyone). Could it be statically linked so that it works everywhere? (I hope what I am saying does make any sense.)
Roman
[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29