Thanks for your helpful information. 

I suppose I will (sigh) have to include the redistributable libraries in the installer, and install them if they are not present on the user's computer. I should have caught this one myself... or I can go back to building these components with MinGW as I used to do, but they are harder to build that way.

I will also look at the Python opcodes issue.

Regards,
Mike

-----Original Message-----
>From: PINOT Francois 
>Sent: Oct 17, 2007 2:46 PM
>To: csound-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
>Subject: Re: [Cs-dev] csound~ crash when using 5.07 on WinXP
>
>Hi, Mike
>
>I had trouble installing csound with the Csound5.07-win32-d.exe 
>installer on a desktop machine with an old XP operating system (a 
>version of XP from 2002, I think, patched with SP2). When running 
>csound  from a console, I got two WARNING messages saying that both 
>fluidOpcodes.dll and rtpa.dll libraries could not be loaded.
>Investigating the event observer log I saw that those events where 
>marked with a 'Generate Activation Content failed' message.
>
>This gave me an indication to search the web and I found this article :
>
>    
>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=32bc1bee-a3f9-4c13-9c99-220b62a191ee&displaylang=en
>
>It says that programs compiled with MSVC need some runtime components of 
>Visual C++ Libraries to run properly. After running the vcredist_x86.exe 
>file on my machine, both libraries were correctly loaded when running 
>csound.
>
>Then I found that the pyXXX opcodes were not installed, despite the fact 
>that python2.5 was correctly installed on the machine. I compiled the 
>py.dll library from the sources with mingw and I pasted it into the 
>plugins64 directory. And voila everything run fine.
>
>I hope this information can help and I thank you for the invaluable work 
>you make building those windows installers.
>
>Best regards
>
>Francois Pinot
>
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I've actually deferred installing 5.07 as i wanted to see how many (more)
issues cropped up. there seem to be a few.

As a csound~ user also, are there enough issues needing resolution here then
to suggest that a "behind the scenes illiterate" such as myself should
actually defer upgrading at this stage?

Mike, if i can offer you any sort of encouragement/ consolation/ hope for
the future I have recently downloaded MinGW-5.1.3, make-3.81.tar, &
MSYS-1.0.10. (aim is to get loris happeneing..)

I have no idea what to do with them yet (someone on this list is very kindly
offering me some periodic assistance...) but perhaps it can offer you a
glimmer of hope that you won't remain solely responsible for this process
until your 125th birthday?

anyway, i defer to the masters as to whether to put off my upgrade to 5.07
or not (the new pvs features being my main focus of interest really.....)

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