Installing 8.0 on a Windows 7 RC machine....

[steven.lafavor]

Has anyone gotten this to work?

I'm trying to install the 8.0 client onto a Windows 7 RC (32bit) machine - the manager install works correctly.

I've tried installing as administrator, and setting the compatibility to Windows Vista SP 2 as well. No luck. I get a window titled

Smalltlak Virtual Machine Runtime has stopped working, with these problem details:

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Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: setup.exe_VA Smalltalk
Application Version: 4.0.0.78
Application Timestamp: 49d13cd6
Fault Module Name: ntdll.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.1.7100.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 49eea66e
Exception Code: c0000029
Exception Offset: 0008f3ad
OS Version: 6.1.7100.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: e8ad
Additional Information 2: e8adce1c2b9e7be834b4063ac3c53863
Additional Information 3: e8ad
Additional Information 4: e8adce1c2b9e7be834b4063ac3c53863

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Any ideas?


*Steve*

[wembley]

Steve -

I haven't had a chance to try VA Smalltalk on the latest Windows 7 code drop. I'll install a VMware image and let you know.

[wembley]

Steve -

OK, the bad news is that the installer is causing the fault when it tries to create the various shortcuts used to start VA Smalltalk. This leaves VA Smalltalk only partially installed since the install actions that follow creating the shortcuts were never run. What is missing is:

1) The shortcuts
2) The Windows registry entries
3) The customization of the <varoot>\newimage\abt.ini file
4) Copying files from <varoot>\newimage to <varoot>\image800

The good news is that this seems to be all that is broken -- VA Smalltalk itself appears to run just fine on Windows 7. You can work around the installer problem (until it is fixed) by:

1) Creating your own shortcut
* Target: "C:\Program Files\Instantiations\VA Smalltalk\8.0\bin\abt.exe"
* Start in: "C:\Users\<yourid>\My Documents\Instantiations\VA Smalltalk\8.0\image" (the directory you copy the contents of <varoot>\newimage to in step 4)
2) Ignoring the missing Windows registry entries
3) Customize the <varoot>\newimage\abt.ini file manually:
* change $MGRPATHMGRFILE to the location of your manager
* change $MGRADDR to the hostname for emsrv access, or delete it for fileio access
* change $TARGETDIR to your install location (for example, C:\Program Files\Instantiations\VA Smalltalk\8.0)
4) Copy the contents of <varoot>\newimage to whatever directory you will run the image from

Case 41740 has been opened to track this problem.

[steven.lafavor]

Thanks very much for the workaround!