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jwfv · Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 3:47 pm Post subject: Problems with manifest?

This morning I was going along fine when I got hit with the deletion bug in VDS5. (Randomly, about 2/3 of the files in my working directory were just gone.)

I restored what I could from recycle bin and backups.

Now I am running into a couple of problems.

I downloaded VDS 5.1 and tried to compile my project with that. It says it compiles okay, but when I run the executable, nothing happens. It just never runs. Nothing shows up in the Win XP task manager either. It runs in the IDE, just not the executable.

So -

I went back to 5.0 to try to compile it. It works when I compile it with 5.0, but the compiler messages seem different. It says that it is including ~vdstemp.dsu, ~vdstemp.manifest, and ~vdstemp.res. Were these listed before and I just never noticed?

Also, my program seems to have the correct Win XP look, but there is no separate .manifest file like there was before.

Any help is appreciated!

jules · Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 6:44 pm Post subject:

It looks to me like you have a 5.0 copy of the runtime lurking around somewhere. I seem to recall someone posting that EXEs compiled with 5.1 don't like running with 5.0.

jwfv · Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 7:19 pm Post subject:

Thanks Jules - that was it exactly. The program now runs when compiled by 5.1.

Do the messages look okay that I am getting about ~vdstemp.res and ~vdstemp.dsu look correct?

And the fact that there is no .manifest file? Is it integrated into the executable? I remember it being separate.

jules · Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 7:46 pm Post subject:

The manifest is integrated into the executable file. You can deselect this from the project manager if you don't want it. The ~vdstemp.dsu is the compiled version of the script. So you should always see that being included.