[PyMOL] installation problem on XP laptop

[drigden]

Dear all

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

pymol.exe - Unable to Locate Component

This application has failed to start because MSVCR71.dll was not found.

It says that re-installing might help but it doesn't.  I can't google anything
about this.  Has anyone any ideas?

Thanks in advance

Daniel

Re: [PyMOL] installation problem on XP laptop

[Peter Adrian Meyer]

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

Re: [PyMOL] installation problem on XP laptop

[Daniel Rigden]

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
 
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