Installing thinBasic 1.8.0.0 on Vista

**tekrat** · 11-06-2010, 03:05

I keep having issues installing 1.8.0.0. Every time I run the installer I get access violations. Anyone else having the same issue?

I've ran the installer as:

Admin
XP Compatibility Mode

Any ideas? I did an install on XP earlier today and had to turn off DEP for thinBasic.

**Cameron** · 11-06-2010, 03:42

installs and runs fine here on win7 ultimate x86 .. i did nothing special.. it defaults to install to c:\thinBasic so permissions shouldn't be an issue. I've al;so successfully run demos and turtorials bo peoblems either

Are you perhaps running on a 64bit OS .. i duno if that has any problems , I've heard that theres a lot of softwware that doesn't like running on the 64bit os's thats why i've stuck to the 32 bit versions of the OS's

hope this helps

**ErosOlmi** · 11-06-2010, 08:01

Hi tekrat,

latest thinBasic has been developed and setup created under Win7 64 bit. So 64 bit should not be an issue.
Setup is created using InnoSetup. Having a GPF during installation is quite unusual.
Can you please tell me at what stage of the setup you get GPF: immediately, after confirmation of one screen (which one in the next next ... steps), just before the end, at the end?

Try to deactivate any AV or protection software and see if that change something.

DEP protection can be a problem because thinAir (thinBassic editor) has one DLL (CodeMax edit control) embedded in the EXE and executed directly from memory remapping exported function on the fly. But this only after installation.

Eros

**Petr Schreiber** · 11-06-2010, 09:59

I installed thinBasic on PCs with:

Windows 98/ME
Windows XP
Windows Vista 32bit
Windows 7 64bit

... and never experienced a problem.
On systems with ESET32 NOD antivirus the installation takes long, as it does intensive scanning, but it always succeeded for me.

Petr

**tekrat** · 12-06-2010, 04:21

Sure, here's a series of screen captures of each step of the errors I'm getting:

http://docs.google.com/View?id=aps89kfsj5j_73tbrs3dgd

Hope this helps

**Michael Clease** · 12-06-2010, 09:35

I would suspect a corrupt download try getting the install files again.

**ErosOlmi** · 12-06-2010, 09:42

So it seems there are GPF at any step of setup. Never seen something like that.
That screens are not thinBasic but the install software we use to build thinBasic: InnoSetUp http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php

I will see what I can do but the situation is very strange.
Are you experiencing anything similar with other installation software?

If it GPF at any step it can be something Innosetup is doing.
I recal two possible problems: some kind of protection, temporary file location.

Can you check what is your temporary file location?
Open a command prompt and type SET
A list of environment variables will be listed
Can you check TEMP and/or TMP variables and see if path is present in your system?

Eros

**ErosOlmi** · 13-06-2010, 21:37

I've released a prelimar thinBasic beta 1.8.1.0 updating the software we use for creating thinBasic Setup.
I've moved to Innosetup 5.3.10
Check this post: http://community.thinbasic.com/index.php?topic=3452

tekrat can you be so kind to see if this fix something in thinBasic installation on your box?

Ciao
Eros