OMShell crashes on Windows Vista

[Wilhelm.Medetz]

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[Wilhelm.Medetz]

OMShell 1.4.2 crashes on Windows Vista

[Adrian Pop]

Hi,

As we don't have any Windows Vista available
it will be a bit hard to test this.

Do you have any more information on the crash?

Regards,
Adrian Pop/

[Adrian Pop]

Does your firewall is set on learning?
You should instruct your firewall to let
OMShell.exe, omc.exe and OMNotebook.exe
use the local network. They communicate
via Corba and if that doesn't work it seems
that OMShell will crash.

Cheers,
Adrian Pop/

[Wilhelm.Medetz]

I did try it with a disabled firewall - but same beavior.

I will try to compile OpenModelica myself (a soon as I have some time left) in
order to debug it and see where it crashes.

regards

Wilhelm Medetz

[Adrian Pop]

Try to start omc.exe first, then start OMShell:
Start->Run->cmd
$ cd c:\OpenModelica1.4.x\bin
$ .\omc.exe +d=interactiveCorba

Now start OMShell.exe
Still crashes?

Regards,
Adrian Pop/

[Wilhelm.Medetz]

I managed to get the lates OpenModelica night build OpenModelica-1.4.3-NIGHTLY-
BUILD-2007_06_11-14_59.msi running under Windows Vista.

Necessary steps:

• run msiexec as administrator (otherwise installation fails), normally

msiexec should be run with non-admin rights under Vista.

• follow the steps on ​http://aarongiles.com/?p=199 to get MINGW running, in

addition also include C:\MinGW\bin in the PATH environment variable

Afterwards omc/OMNotebook/OMShell/MDT seem work without major problems.

Only Omc.exe crashes when it is terminated by one of the other applications in
interactive mode.

As an intermediate workaround for the installation problems, would it be
possible to provide a Zip install package for the nightly builds?

[Adrian Pop]

Cool to hear that you got it running on Windows Vista!

Yep, I will provide also .zip versions when doing nightly
builds from now on.

Cheers,
Adrian Pop/

[Martin Sjölund]

Should work since OMDev has been updated to support Vista/7 (and Adrian now builds on 7).