I have created a Setup EXE of my Python program with InnoSetup. On most computers it runs without any problems.
But on some the EXE doesn't do anything at all. No error message or anything like that!
Is there any method for me to check what causes this behaviour?
Also the setup installs to C:\Program Files but when i want to start it it just works with admin rights. Is that normal or am i doing somethin wrong?
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I'm converting a legacy VC 6 C++ Windows Service application to Visual Studio 2022
The conversion is completed and, if I open a CMD prompt with Admin rights, I can install the service using this command:
Service.exe /Install
It installs instantly and starts correctly.
However, I need to install it within an installation script, which loads a bunch of services by calling a batch file which contains the commands to start them. It is run with elevated permissions. However, which it reaches the above line (Service.exe /Install) it hangs. There is no error message and I cannot even terminate it using CTRL + C. The only way around it is to close the CMD prompt. The service is not installed.
My service does not appear in the Task manager's list of processes when the batch file hangs.
I've tried adding the full path to the service in the batch file but it makes no difference. Running this batch file from an elevated command prompt (rather than the installer script) runs into the same problem.
I'm tearing my hair out over this (almost bald now :-)) - can anyone provide any suggestions?
Thanks
Andy
Debugging found a logic error in the start up code.
Basically, calling Service.exe /Install directly from the command line just passes "Service.exe /Install" as the command line, whereas calling it from a batch file / CreateProcess() passes the whole path to the service in the command line and the parser was not taking that into account. Maybe it behaved differently in older Windows versions, but the parser was really badly written.
I'm glad it was me who wrote it :-)
So I finished an app, made an .exe, and the original .exe works, but when I try to install the app, the .exe and shortcuts to the .exe don't work. I get this error message: Failed to execute script (app name)
Is there a solution to this or should I make the installer another way or on another computer? In the meantime, I'll try to look into other options.
So I switched to Inno Setup and the first time I built the installer it worked. But after building again, the same error occurred. I eventually tried running the app as admin and it worked, so to fix the issue, I added something in the registry to make the app run as admin by default. This is how you do that.
In-House developed .exe file is failing in container, it prints no error, and just returns the exit code -1073741515. The exe seems to be running fine on other machines. I understand this error code means it's missing a DLL File or Library but I don't which one.
It's a windowsservercore based container. Running no other application except this .exe, and running it on Command Prompt, although Powershell also return same exit code.
I took a dump of it using dumpbin tool (which comes with Visual Studio), to check which DLL files it uses, and my container is also having all those DLLs
I tried Dr. Memory tools like drmemory.exe and it says the WARNING: libraries needed by the application are missing. Check that it runs successfully on its own and check that all needed libraries are in its directory or on the PATH.
I am running out of options to troubleshoot. How can I find what is causing this .exe to fail or any missing dependency?
I am trying to get some code running which uses make. I've downloaded and installed both MinGW (standard 32 bit) and TDM-GCCs flavor of MinGW on my 64-bit Windows 7 machine.
When I run make (i.e. mingw32-make.exe) in Administrator mode, I get the following error message:
Windows cannot access the specified path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item.
The weird/scary part is that, upon running, it immediately deletes the exe file.
I ran a checksum SHA1 as recommended in the comments using the Microsoft (R) File Checksum Integrity Verifier V2.05:
C:\path\to\folder>fciv.exe -sha1 mingw32-make.exe
//
// File Checksum Integrity Verifier version 2.05.
//
c8ae5c780ab7bed652883d6443b5bfe5e23d30c9 mingw32-make.exe
I don't understand what this output means, but maybe it's helpful to someone.
Notes:
This happens regardless of where the file is located on my pc.
This behavior is specific to the make program (others such as gfortran and gcc appear to be working fine)
Renaming the file makes no difference.
I am an administrator on the pc
Same behavior when I run the program from the explorer or command line.
My anti-virus program (Avast) does not detect any problems with the file when I scan it.
I got the MinGW setup file from this SourceForge page.
I got the TDM-GCC web installer from this page.
The file size is 219,662 bytes (from both the main MinGW and TDM-GCC packages)
I have run make from the command line where I have started the command prompt by way of selecting Run as Administrator in the context menu.
I have also tried to run make by selecting Run as Administrator when I have it selected.
I run the command mingw32-make when this behavior occurs. I have also tried renaming it to things like make and foo with the same result.
The first time this happened with both MinGW it deleted the original file and I re-installed it using the mingw-get application. From thereon after I started making copies of the original mingw32-make for testing.
For the make executable, I have all permissions (including Read & execute) except the special permissions field.
After using the process manager I found out it was indeed Avast that was the problem :S A couple of lines revealed avast actually deleted the file before windows got around to executing it, which was the reason for the windows message. I put Avast on 'Silent Mode' a while back; I thought the only purpose of this mode was to suppress notifications about minor updates, but apparently it also gave Avast permission to deal with 'threats' silently as well.
After figuring that out the solution was straightforward. I just went into the settings and created an exception for the mingw32-make.exe file. It now runs without issue.
Thanks very much for your help everyone!
User account has administrator privilege but when user started to work , not all privilege are taken in account , just start your application for compiling with run with administrator mode try this : https://technet.microsoft.com/en-in/library/cc781763(v=ws.10).aspx
I downloaded bitcloud, the atmel zigbee stack and I am trying to compile one of the default applications, ZLLDemo.
It is located currently at:
C:\Users\Ryan\Desktop\BitCloud_MEGARF_3_1_0\Applications\ZLLDemo\atmelStudio_projects\ATmega256RFR2.cproj
Everytime I try to compile the application I get a windows message screen for "mkdir.exe" error 0xc0000142. In the Output screen I see the line "make: *** [directories] Error -1073741502"
This same error and error code occurs later in the build process for cp.exe if I manually make the folders myself.
I have tried the following things to fix the error:
Change folder and contents to different owners, everyone having full
privileges
run make command manually from a command prompt window as admin
clean solution before retrying
all other examples files
ran directly from C: as "C:\BitCloud_MEGARF_3_1_0\Applications\ZLLDemo\atmelStudio_projects\ATmega256RFR2.cproj" - as per general suggestion for the windows error I tried
"sfc /scannow" in case mkdir had somehow been corrupted
Changed AppInitDLLs Reg key to 0 to load all DLLs at start of application
Disabled Internet security
Does this have a general fix or is there perhaps something else at work here? General compilations work, its just external ones. My friend did the same and it seems to work just fine for him.
Windows 8.1
Atmel Studio 6.2
Avrfreaks had a solution that I finally found here.
Their solution is to download an old version of the msys file for winavr. Which means that their is something more than likely wrong with the latest version of winavr for windows 8.1
sebastor wrote:
I found solution.
Copy this file:
http://www.madwizard.org/download/electronics/msys-1.0-vista64.zip
to utils\bin directory (WinAVR)