Re: Phix 0.8.3 uploaded
- Posted by petelomax Feb 08, 2021
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My old good IBM NetVista/WinXP works almost great with Phix:
http://pl-euphoria.narod.ru/phix/phix-nv-001.PNG
http://pl-euphoria.narod.ru/phix/ex-001-nv.txt
The ex.err writes here.
Windows XP does not support the required elliptic curve cryptography to access https sites.
If you download https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/VC_redist.x86.exe and install that it should be fine.
It is failing trying to do that for you, I had to do it on a different machine and copy it over.
(I can't afford to spend much time worrying about whether Phix plays nice with Windows XP any more.)
Phix can not write *.ini and ex.err on my Windows 10. (??)
Sounds like a permissions error. Either:
a) right-click on the directory[1], select Properties, then the Security tab, then Edit, then Users(you), check "Full control" and hit apply, or
b) move/copy the program(s) to a directory where you already have write permissions.
[1] eg "C:\Program Files\Phix" will bequest it's permissions to all sub-directories.
It is a long-standing issue that Phix installs everything to C:\Program Files[ x86]\Phix, whereas it should install several bits and pieces
to %ALLUSERSPROFILE%, %APPDATA% or somesuch. Windows is supposed to deal with this through "Virtual Registry", only it don't work.
I'll gladly accept improvements to installation (even moreso on Linux), but it's simply not effective for me to try and go that alone.
