As Mike said, this is bad news. Fortunately, Java allows windows users to
run the JAR file. The EXE file gets there too, it just lacks a shortcut.
I personally don't have the Java experience to do anything on that end, bit
I'm happy to test changes to see id we can get this resolved.
If I remember, the installer is an open source Source Forge project, so
they could be some info there.
On Jan 11, 2015 6:19 PM, "Michael T. Pope" <mp...@computer.org> wrote:
>
> With BR#2790 (0.11.2 Installer not completing/wrong directory) we are
> seeing the installer hang on windows 8.1 (reported by calebrw,
> confirmed by wintertime). This is somewhat puzzling as AFAICT we have
> not changed the installer, at least since 0.11.0 and probably longer.
>
> Lacking windows and not knowing anything about the installer, I am at
> a loss here. Something we probably *should* have changed is the
> shortcuts (.../build/{win,unix}ShortcutSpec.xml) which now invoke
> freecol with incorrect arguments following the change to windowed mode
> being the default. This seems unlikely to be the cause of the
> problem, but wintertime suspects that the hang could be occuring
> during shortcut creation so it is a possibility.
>
> Failing that, the obvious thing to do would be to see if there is a
> more recent release of the installer and update to that, in the hope
> that it is more compatible with windows 8.
>
> This message then is a call for help, as I can not test any changes I
> might make here. AFAICT, Stian added the installer in 2006, and
> Michael made some modifications in 2007, so I appreciate that there is
> no active expertise in this area.
>
> Cheers,
> Mike Pope
>
>
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