[Ifeffit] Demeter/Strawberry Perl in Windows 8

[Bruce Ravel]

This is not clear at all to me and I don't have any Win8 machines to 
play with.

That said, I am troubled by this:

   > I have tried installing the latest version of Strawberry Perl (I
   > have tried both the x86 and x64 version, I have an x64 system)

My package is built using a specific version of Strawberry.  If you have 
installed some other release of Strawberry *and* my package, I can 
imagine that weird things could happen.

My advice is to purge anything having to do with any version of 
Strawberry from your machine and start from scratch.  Make sure that 
after you have run the uninstaller that you also manually remove any 
files still left behind in C:\strawberry or where ever things got 
installed on your computer.

As I said a couple of weeks ago, I am not able to do much more than this 
to help with a Windows specific problem.  I am still furloughed due to 
the shutdown of the US government and unable to go into work.  I do not 
have any Windows computers at home.  Until I get to work again, all I 
can do is sit on this sidelines and offer advice about things like this.

B

On 10/15/2013 11:32 AM, Godfrey, Ian wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I was wondering if anyone has encountered the following error
> (screenshot attached) while trying to run Demeter applications (it seems
> to occur at least for both Artemis and Athena) under Windows 8. I know
> other members of my group have successfully managed to run Demeter under
> Windows 8 but have not encountered this message.:
>
> "perl.exe - Entry Point Not Found
>
> The procedure entry point __gxx_personality_v0 could not be located in
> the dynamic link library C:\strawberry\perl\site\lib\auto\Wx\Wx.dll"
>
> I have run the installer under Windows XP compatibility mode and used
> the Windows Compatibility Troubleshooter to no avail. I have tried
> installing the latest version of Strawberry Perl (I have tried both the
> x86 and x64 version, I have an x64 system) - this changes the symptoms
> so that the command prompts appear briefly on screen and then disappear.
> Re-running the Demeter installer than causes the original error message
> to begin appearing again. I have run all the installers as admin and
> have tried setting perl.exe both to admin and compatibility mode. I have
> authorised all UAC prompts that appear.
>
> Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ian Godfrey
>
> ----
>
> Ian Godfrey
>
> MRes/PhD Student,
>
> Industrial Doctorate Centre in Molecular Modelling and Materials Science,
>
> Department of Chemistry,
>
> University College London.
>
> i.godfrey at ucl.ac.uk <mailto:i.godfrey at ucl.ac.uk>
>
> 02076 790053
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Ifeffit mailing list
> Ifeffit at millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov
> http://millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/ifeffit
>


-- 
  Bruce Ravel  --------------------- bruceravel1 at gmail.com

  Homepage:    http://xafs.org/BruceRavel
  Software:    https://github.com/bruceravel