I am unable to install any 430 beta.

surefire00 · Post by **surefire00** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 11:20 am

What is going wrong?
I am unable to install any 430 beta.
The program install ok but when I try co compile my project I get error string extention library is missing. Having cheked PB library folder it is missing
This is happening in Vista and XP

ts-soft · Post by **ts-soft** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 11:30 am

remove the incompatible userlibs, this is not a pb bug

gnozal · Post by **gnozal** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 11:31 am

surefire00 wrote:... when I try co compile my project I get error string extention library is missing...

You probably have some user libraries not compatible with PB4.30

surefire00 · Post by **surefire00** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 12:35 pm

Thank you for youe qiuck reply.
The only library I have installed is Purevision, without which my project will not compile. So I will stick to 420 for now
Thanks again.

Kaeru Gaman · Post by **Kaeru Gaman** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 12:47 pm

pse note: when installing another version of PB, it's necessary to install it into a virgin directory!

Post by **Fred** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 12:49 pm

no, it's not necessary.

PB · Post by PB » Wed Oct 15, 2008 1:29 pm

It is necessary if you wish to avoid incompatible user lib problems.

Post by **Fred** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 2:06 pm

well, if your program use them, you will have to copy them as well, so the result is the same.

PB · Post by PB » Wed Oct 15, 2008 2:24 pm

What I mean is, most people will just install the new PureBasic over the old
one, without doing anything to the userlib folder. Perhaps the Updater could
rename the userlib folder to the old version number, to show that it's specific
to an older PureBasic version? Would help newbies discover their problem.

juror · Post by **juror** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 3:31 pm

PB wrote:What I mean is, most people will just install the new PureBasic over the old
one, without doing anything to the userlib folder.

For a beta? I always install a beta into a fresh directory and keep my old one.

Kaeru Gaman · Post by **Kaeru Gaman** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 4:37 pm

I would like to have the version number in the .exe name and in the
folder name to ease running different versions on the same machine.
I can't convince my windumb to open 4.2 when double clicking a .pb file,
it insists in opening the 4.1

Post by **Rings** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 4:45 pm

topic moved

Rook Zimbabwe · Post by **Rook Zimbabwe** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 2:16 am

Perhaps the Updater could
rename the userlib folder to the old version number, to show that it's specific
to an older PureBasic version? Would help newbies discover their problem.

That sounds like a good idea to me.

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