Re: BUG #9308: The application failed to initialize properly

Yes, we could reproduce this. Will provide update installer for 8.4 Windows
soon.

Thanks for reporting this.


On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Patrick Wege <Patrick.Wege@bioscitec.de>wrote:

>  Yes, the installer installs VC++ 2005. This is sufficient for 8.4.19.
> But not for version 8.4.20. The installer of version 8.4.20 does install
> CV++2005 too, but I have to install VC++ 2008 to get it working.
>
> As a result the installer of 8.4.20 hangs at the end of the process if
> VC++ 2008 is not installed. I have checked the installers of 8.4.19 and
> 8.4.20 in the exact same environment. (Virtual machine Win XP SP2 with no
> VC++ installed)
>
> Please check, possibly I am wrong,
> Patrick
>
> Am 26.02.2014 07:05, schrieb Sandeep Thakkar:
>
> Installer installs the VC++ runtimes. You can confirm from the
> installation log. There is no change from installer perspective in 8.4.20.
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Patrick Wege <Patrick.Wege@bioscitec.de>wrote:
>
>> Well, after installing the "Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable
>> Package (x86)" it is working again.
>>
>> Why did the compiler change, without a hint in the release-notes? In
>> version 8.4.19 the C++ 2008 runtime was not necessary.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Patrick
>>
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