albie
27th September 2006 19:14 UTC

Executable Installations and Porting
Hi Everyone,

I'm realitively new to NSIS...
And this question somewhat applys to Nsis and
then again it doesn't.

I don't have a handle on the issues of porting
an executable from one PC to another yet. I'm
using Nsis to do the install.

I'm writing a program using Microsoft Visual C++ Express.
Everytime I try to install the program on a new
PC and try to run it I get an Error.

The Error message says,
"This application has failed to start because the
application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling
the application may fix this problem."

Can some point me in the right direction?

My guess is that either it's a registration problem
or I'm missing some run-time libraries or I don't know
Microsoft express well enough to compile an executable
that will run on any PC.

Any help here would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks, Mike

dandaman32
28th September 2006 03:41 UTC

Are you using Windows Vista? I noticed that this occurred with some of my VC++ Express experiments too. Try copying the filename.config.xml file, and if that doesn't work I would suggest checking for the .NET framework, depending on whether you used C/C++ or C# (.NET).

-dandaman32

albie
28th September 2006 14:41 UTC

Thanks for responding DanTheMan!

No, I'm just using the normal Windows XP2.

And the express compilier is C/C++.

??

Thanks, Mike

albie
28th September 2006 18:05 UTC

DanTheMan,

I've been poking around looking for the
"filename.config.xml" file that you mentioned.
Can't find any such animal...

No xml files at all.

Where would I find this or a comparable file to try?

If I don't respond after this reply right away It's
because I'm going to be out of town on business for
the next couple of days.

Thanks for your help, Mike