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From: billposer on 14 Jan 2010 17:07
A would be user of one of my programs is trying to install it on a
system running MS Windows Vista, about which I know next to nothing.
He says that he has installed tcl/tk and has downloaded tcllib and
copied it into the lib folder of the tcl tree. When he attempts to run
the program, however, it says that it cannot find math::bignum. Any
advice? Thanks.
From: Don Porter on 14 Jan 2010 17:10
billposer(a)alum.mit.edu wrote:
> A would be user of one of my programs is trying to install it on a
> system running MS Windows Vista, about which I know next to nothing.
> He says that he has installed tcl/tk and has downloaded tcllib and
> copied it into the lib folder of the tcl tree.

That's not what the instructions in INSTALL.txt say to do.

> When he attempts to run
> the program, however, it says that it cannot find math::bignum. Any
> advice? Thanks.

My advice is to read and follow the install instructions in INSTALL.txt.

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From: billposer on 14 Jan 2010 17:40
Ahha, thanks. Who knew that a user wouldn't follow the instructions.

From: Robert Heller on 14 Jan 2010 18:11
At Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:40:41 -0800 (PST) "billposer(a)alum.mit.edu" <billposer(a)alum.mit.edu> wrote:

>
> Ahha, thanks. Who knew that a user wouldn't follow the instructions.

Given what the user has done so far, you might want to look at making
your program into a starpack -- that is, a completly self-contained .exe
file. This is something that any random MS-Windows user can just
download (to anywhere they like) and just click on. No need for them to
install anything else.

>
>

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From: billposer on 15 Jan 2010 16:37
Actually, I do have starpacks available. I'm not sure why this user
didn't go that route, and suggested it to him in response to his
query. But I was curious as to why he was having trouble installing
from source, and having no experience doing so on Vista myself just
assumed that he knew what he was doing.
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