PB 5.0 on Windows 7 (x64)

[Jojje]

Hi,

We are having problems installing PB5 on a pc with Windows 7 x64. The
installations fails at the end and the installation rolls back.
(Before the PB installtion Visual 2005 and 2008 had been successfully
installed on the pc.)

Is it possible installing/running PB5 on Windows 7 x64? If not, is the
problem x64 or Windows 7.

I've seen reports of problems on Windows Vista x64.

Thanks,
Jojje

[shai]

See this post regarding PB6. I presume that PB5 has a similar problem.
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsce.platbuilder/browse_thread/thread/f8d26b911240e6bb/251fead9c536799c?hl=en&q=64+bit+platform+%22MichaelH%22+group:microsoft.public.windowsce.*

Shai

[Jojje]

Thanks for the link, shai.

Steps needed to get the install working on Windows 7 x64:

Turn off UAC
Follow the steps in Mike Hall's blog, http://blogs.msdn.com/mikehall/archive/2006/04/24/582444.aspx
Always run as administrator when starting installs or programs

Now we can even build an image after some manual tweeking. For
example, just doing sysgen didn't work. We had to call makeimg
directly. Unfortunately, the OS crashes with an exception in
filesys.exe, so something is still wrong with the build process. ;-(

Jojje

On 16 Nov, 16:02, shai <sha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> See this post regarding PB6. I presume that PB5 has a similar problem.http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsce.platbuilder...

[Jojje]

The problem was that Cenlscmp.exe (the NLS Compression tool) crashed
during the makeimg step. (The wince.nls output file was created but
was not complete.)

The problem with Cenlscmp crashing has been reported earlier,
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/963076, and there is a fix for this
(the fix is for Vista but the same thing obviously also happens on
Windows 7). BUT the fix is only for CE6, there is no fix for CE5! Why
not?!

So... the result is that we cannot use PB5 directly on a Windows 7
computer because the Cenlscmp fix has not been release for PB5. Gah.
Really annoying since we went thru a lot tweaks and tricks to get PB5
first installed and then to build and image.

We will try to get it working by running PB5 using Windows Virtual PC
and Windows XP Mode. Gah.

Regards,
Jojje

On 20 Nov, 14:45, Jojje <jojje.an...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the link, shai.
>
> Steps needed to get the install working on Windows 7 x64:
>
> Turn off UAC

> Follow the steps in Mike Hall's blog,http://blogs.msdn.com/mikehall/archive/2006/04/24/582444.aspx