[bt-devel] BT doesn't start on WinXP

[Eeli Kaikkonen]

Lainaus Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com>:

> Eeli,
>
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Eeli Kaikkonen
> <eekaikko at mail.student.oulu.fi> wrote:
>> I just installed BT with Windows installer on another XP. When I try to
>> start it, Windows gives message "Program cannot be started" (or something
>> similar, it's in Finnish) in command line, or "Starting application failed,
>> because application configuration [how it is put together] is erroneous" in
>> GUI.
>
> This is Microsoft secret code language designed to confuse the user
> and irritate the developer.  It means simply that the required
> redistributable libraries were not installed.  If you note Gary and my
> messages from last night, you'll see I had the same problem.  At CMake
> time, you have to download a file which installs the VS
> redistributables and provide the path to that program to CMake before
> you create the vcproj files.  More details about it are in our
> discussion from last night.
>

But I used the prebuilt package from sourcearchives.com. Maybe there  
is still some dll which other systems had but this one doesn't have.

--Eeli Kaikkonen