Subj : YesNo Bar issues...
To   : Android8675
From : Digital Man
Date : Mon Sep 23 2019 03:32 pm

  Re: YesNo Bar issues...
  By: Android8675 to Digital Man on Mon Sep 23 2019 03:06 pm

 >   Re: YesNo Bar issues...
 >   By: Digital Man to Android8675 on Mon Sep 23 2019 12:22 pm
 >
 >  >   Re: YesNo Bar issues...
 >  >   By: Android8675 to Digital Man on Mon Sep 23 2019 07:59 am
 >  >
 >  > You don't need to build it yourself. Read this:
 >  > http://wiki.synchro.net/install:dev

 > Yes, that's what I did, and using the nightly build causes the system to
 > crash on startup.

The computer system crashes?

 > I've been updating my system with the nightly build like
 > every 4-6 weeks for the last few years and this crash is new, but not much
 > else has changed on my end.
 >
 > I tried installing a new build (copied nightly build to an empty folder, run
 > sbbsctrl.exe), got the first time setup questions, it "failed to save
 > configuration", but the sbbs control panel started up and the same crash
 > occured. The error seems like some WinXP error, and the control panel keeps
 > running if I don't dismiss the error.

I was using MSVC2013 before this year, so if you wanted to use the older dev tools to possibly fix the issue, you'd need to use MSVC2013, not MSVC2019.

 > I don't know whats going on, but either my OS has a serious issue (maybe
 > VirtualBox is doing something, I dunno), or maybe the code doesn't like XP
 > anymore.

It's definitely possible that something in the new Microsoft tools/libs doesn't like WinXP.

 > I can run an older build (dated 7/8/2019), but since I didn't save my data
 > files from back then, everything is hosed.

I'm not sure what you mean. You should be able to use new/current data with old builds.

 > I'll wait a few more nights, maybe someone will realize something, or I'll
 > see if I can get a Win10 VM running.

It's only a matter of time before I can't feasibly support WinXP any longer. That time may be now, I'm not sure. Best you upgrade to at *least* Win7.

                                            digital man

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