[GRASS-dev] repeated problem for installing GRASS for windows

[Michael Barton]

Thanks Robert,

This site has LOTS of information about this pernicious problem.

Michael
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Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity 
Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Arizona State University

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On Mar 7, 2013, at 6:04 PM, Robert Lagacé <Robert.Lagace at fsaa.ulaval.ca>
 wrote:

> 
> I found the following Web page that may help :
> 
> http://pcsupport.about.com/od/findbyerrormessage/a/msvcr71-dll-not-found-missing-error.htm
> 
> By the way, I found the name of the installation script (the template) for Windows. It is 
> doable to test if the msvcr71.dll has a key in the Registry (normally if installed). I cannot 
> test it because I do not have acces to Windows at the moment.
> 
> Robert Lagacé
> 
> ________________________________________
> De : grass-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [grass-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] de la part de Michael Barton [Michael.Barton at asu.edu]
> Date d'envoi : 7 mars 2013 13:30
> À : Helena Mitasova
> Cc : Helmut Kudrnovsky; GRASS developers list; Laura Swantek
> Objet : Re: [GRASS-dev] repeated problem for installing GRASS for windows
> 
> She tried whatever solutions are given in the link on the download page. I'll copy her in case this is different.
> 
> Michael
> ______________________________
> C. Michael Barton
> Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
> Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change
> Arizona State University
> Tempe, AZ  85287-2402
> USA
> 
> voice:  480-965-6262 (SHESC), 480-727-9746 (CSDC)
> fax:          480-965-7671(SHESC), 480-727-0709 (CSDC)
> www:    http://csdc.asu.edu, http://shesc.asu.edu
>                http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton
> 
> On Mar 7, 2013, at 11:10 AM, Helena Mitasova <hmitaso at ncsu.edu> wrote:
> 
>> Michael
>> 
>> has she tried the suggestion that my students found and that worked for them:
>> http://i.justrealized.com/2009/how-to-fix-missing-msvcr71dll-problem-in-windows/
>> 
>> Helena
>> 
>> Helena Mitasova
>> Associate Professor
>> Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences
>> 2800 Faucette Drive, Rm. 1125 Jordan Hall
>> North Carolina State University
>> Raleigh, NC 27695-8208
>> hmitaso at ncsu.edu
>> 
>> "All electronic mail messages in connection with State business which are sent to or received by this account are subject to the NC Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties.”
>> 
>> On Mar 7, 2013, at 1:03 PM, Michael Barton wrote:
>> 
>>> Thanks Helmut.
>>> 
>>> Sadly, it turns out that the solutions on the link now on the download page will help many but not all people who get this error. My student tried all suggestions so far to no avail.
>>> 
>>> I suggested (hopefully correctly) to do a search on the dll and see if there are multiple copies, including out of date ones. But I'm not sure what else to have her try.
>>> 
>>> Michael
>>> ______________________________
>>> C. Michael Barton
>>> Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
>>> Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change
>>> Arizona State University
>>> Tempe, AZ  85287-2402
>>> USA
>>> 
>>> voice:
>>> 480-965-6262 (SHESC), 480-727-9746 (CSDC)
>>> fax:          480-965-7671(SHESC), 480-727-0709 (CSDC)
>>> www:
>>> http://csdc.asu.edu, http://shesc.asu.edu
>>> http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton
>>> 
>>> On Mar 7, 2013, at 1:46 AM, <grass-dev-request at lists.osgeo.org>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> From: Helmut Kudrnovsky <hellik at web.de>
>>>> Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] repeated problem for installing GRASS for windows
>>>> Date: March 6, 2013 1:26:45 PM MST
>>>> To: <grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org>
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> If you can give me the name of the installation script (or the script
>>>>>> itself),
>>>>>> I will try to find a way.
>>>> 
>>>>> Robert,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm afraid I don't know much about Windows compiling or installing (I'm
>>>> more of a Mac person with >Linux second). Perhaps others on the dev list
>>>> could help you with this. I'm copying the list.
>>>> 
>>>> the installer script for the standalone-wingrass-nsis-installer:
>>>> 
>>>> http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/branches/releasebranch_6_4/mswindows/GRASS-Installer.nsi.tmpl
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> -----
>>>> best regards
>>>> Helmut
>>>> --
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>>> 
>> 
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