Thursday, February 13, 2014

Re: installation issues on Windows 8.1

Hi Steve,

On Friday, February 14, 2014 1:45:03 AM UTC+8, Steve Hall wrote:
> It is likely the installer itself. I use the Nullsoft Installer soley
>
> instead of the offical Vim installer, which uses a combination of the
> Nullsoft (mostly cosmetic packaging) and a binary installer underneath
> that does most of the heavy lifting. 
>
> Windows security has recently become a little less forgiving (probably
> a good thing) and doesn't permit unregistered binaries and scripts as
>
> much access these days. Between making directories, copying files,
> creating shortcuts in various profiles, and adjusting the registry,
> software installation is not as simple as it used to be. By using an
>
> off the shelf installer, I might be seeing the advantage of a focused
> development on these issues. But I'm guessing.
>

Does your current installer installs different versions of gvimext.dll depending on 32-bit or 64-bit Windows? Currently the installer I used has that.

Regards,
KF

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