Hi,

The VC runtime is necessary for installing UWIN binaries. After you can
recompile everything with another compilator.

I had the same problem before I read that UWIN binaries were constructed with 
MSVC so
they won't autoextract without MSVC runtime.

Pierre Brochard

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 01:38:07PM -0700, michael lindenmeyer wrote:
> I prefer to stay as far away from MS software as possible. I tried downloading
> VC++, and it was an absolute disaster. If I can use mingw, borland or gnu I
> will, However, I will not use any MS software.
> Thanks for the advice. I abandoned borland since it uses slightly different
> command options. I am working with mingw now and want to see if there is a
> difference between runnnig the mingw sed and the uwin sed, and then to look ad
> differences between ksh and bash.
> 090330.1538
> 
> --- On Mon, 3/30/09, Pierre Brochard <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>     From: Pierre Brochard <[email protected]>
>     Subject: Re: [uwin-users] more uwin installation problems
>     To: "michael lindenmeyer" <[email protected]>
>     Cc: [email protected]
>     Date: Monday, March 30, 2009, 10:08 AM
> 
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>     Just in case :
> 
>     Do you have runtime for MSVC++ 2005 or do you have this compilator ?
>     Runtime is vcredist_x86.exe for 2005 version form the microsoft site.
> 
>     The install need vc runtimes.
> 
>     Pierre Brochard
> 
>     On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 06:35:38PM -0700, michael lindenmeyer wrote:
>     > Tried installation as administrator, in safe and regular mode with all
>     > anti-virus software turned off, and still get:
>     > ----
>     >
>     > UWIN installation failed with exit status 256
>     >
>     > ----
>     > Is there something missing??
>     > MEL
>     > 090324.2036
> 
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