Dear Pete Thanks for the help. The one that didn't work was the standard 0.99, not a beta version - pymol-0_99rc1-bin-win32.zip. As you suggested, the earlier 0.98 - pymol-0_98rc5-bin-win32.zip *does* work so I'm up and running. I guess others will know the ins and outs of the error.
Daniel On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 12:40 -0500, Peter Adrian Meyer wrote: > Daniel, > > > I just tried to install the latest version of Pymol on a XP laptop. The > > installation completes but when I try to launch the program I get > > Are you trying the latest release version or one of the betas? In any > event, it might be possible to install an older version (although this may > not work, if it fails in the same way it could help you to isolate the > problem). > > > This application has failed to start because MSVCR71.dll was not found. > > MSVCR71.dll appears to a a windows c++ runtime library (probably required > for some c stuff, as last time I checked there wasn't any c++ in pymol). > Either the file isn't present (try searching for it), or the executable > can't find this (on unix, you'd fix this with LD_LIBRARY_PATH... for > windows, I believe this is done by registering the dll ; google or msdn > should have more information on this. If I rememeber correctly, regsvr > MSVCR77.dll should work, but as always check things carefully before > messing around with the windows registry). > > Hope this helps (at least until somebody with more experience with windows > than me can chime in). > > Pete > > Pete Meyer > Fu Lab > BMCB grad student > Cornell University > -- Dr Daniel John Rigden Tel:(+44) 151 795 4467 School of Biological Sciences FAX:(+44) 151 795 4406 Room 101, Biosciences Building University of Liverpool Crown St., Liverpool L69 7ZB, U.K.
