On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Steve Borho <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 5:42 AM, TK Soh <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:31 AM, TK Soh <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I wanted to run Tortoisehg 1.1.2 on an older XP SP2 box, which I have >>> no admin permission, hence I can't install from the installer. As a >>> workaround, I copied the TortoiseHg directory from my laptop computer >>> (running SP3) to the SP2 box and hope to run it out of the directory, >>> but it was unable to execute hg.exe and hgtk.exe (the bundled >>> kdiff3.exe and TortoisePlink.exe were able to execute). I suspect the >>> MSVC 2008 library is needed, but as I am unable to install it, I can't >>> really confirm. >>> >>> Just to get things going, I tried the same approach with TortoiseHg >>> 0.8.3, and this time hg.exe and hgtk.exe work without any issue so >>> far. But I'd really like to use the new GUI from 1.1.2. Any pointers? >> >> BTW, does the 1.1.2 installer allow to install on system that we don't >> have admin permission? Naturally we won't be able to use the overlay >> icons and context menus, but having hg and hgtk will be good enough. > > It requires admin privilidges because it is installing the MSVC 2008 > redist libraries that Python 2.6 requires. So to use it standalone > you need to find those correct DLLs and copy them into your folder, or
Thanks for the pointer, I will give it a try. Just to be sure, I should copy the DLLs into the top level of the installation directory (same level as hg.exe)? > install the redist package from Microsoft. This will need admin permission, isn't it? Maybe I misunderstand you. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Tortoisehg-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tortoisehg-discuss
