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Message 26354 - Posted: 20 Apr 2014, 13:36:45 UTC
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here and on all others I received on this box

When I start the program outside of BOINC, it tells me that it is not a "zulässige Win32-Anwendung" (valid application for Win32)

The binary has an unusual large number of 0x00 bytes at the end.


I downloaded a sixtrack_win32_4463_sse3.exe for comparison, that one does start properly and creates stderr with "15:49:08 (7132): Can't open init data file - running in standalone mode" ... edit : this is a basic test you should do on a machine without the development environment before you upload the new program


An x64 wingman has the same problem : couldn't start CreateProcess() failed - : -148
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Message 26355 - Posted: 21 Apr 2014, 13:50:19 UTC - in response to Message 26354.  

here and on all others I received on this box

When I start the program outside of BOINC, it tells me that it is not a "zulässige Win32-Anwendung" (valid application for Win32)

Ah; very interesting indeed. I have done a "file" command on each and it says
Windows console application......I'll check again.

The binary has an unusual large number of 0x00 bytes at the end.
Perhaps a clue.

I downloaded a sixtrack_win32_4463_sse3.exe for comparison, that one does start properly and creates stderr with "15:49:08 (7132): Can't open init data file - running in standalone mode" ... edit : this is a basic test you should do on a machine without the development environment before you upload the new program
Right; that is the correct offline behaviour and is what I get at CERN when running my
offline tests

An x64 wingman has the same problem : couldn't start CreateProcess() failed - : -148

Right, this is really the problem.

Many thanks for your help. More tests coming. Eric.
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Message 26357 - Posted: 21 Apr 2014, 18:42:04 UTC - in response to Message 26355.  

The "file" command checks for some typical details for a file type, e.g. "MZ" as the first two letters, it cannot check for missing shared libraries, illegal use of privileged instructions and stuff like that.

Maybe an interesting detail that I did not notice in my first offline test : After confirming the message box ("not a valid application"), it sends the text "Zugriff verweigert" / "access denied" to stderr (console, not disk file).

The reason why an offline test should run on a machine without IDE is, that shell environment, paths, debug environment, special libraries ... on a development machine might be untypical and often cannot be compared to a "plain" windows installation.
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Message 26358 - Posted: 21 Apr 2014, 22:29:19 UTC
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Suspicious (unresolved) dependencies : IESHIMS.DLL and WER.DLL

Try static linking.

After downloading those two DLLs, it still isn't happy. Missing now :

API-MS-WIN-DOWNLEVEL-ADVAPI32-L1-1-0.DLL (referenced from IESHIMS.DLL)
API-MS-WIN-DOWNLEVEL-OLE32-L1-1-0.DLL (referenced from IESHIMS.DLL)
API-MS-WIN-DOWNLEVEL-SHLWAPI-L1-1-0.DLL (referenced from IESHIMS.DLL)
NCRYPT.DLL (referenced from WER.DLL)

Actually it seems that you have (dyn-) linked half the IE8 (or higher) API to the program, I wonder if that could not be excluded (project properties or so). Maybe some specific module of the .net framework requires that stuff.

p.s.: Somewhere in a newsgroup I saw someone mention the same problem with Visual Fortran and he solved it by recompiling his stuff in "release mode" - sounds good as this usually produces files with much less overhead and without referring to non-distributable files that are part of the IDE and/or debug environment
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Message 26359 - Posted: 22 Apr 2014, 7:05:10 UTC - in response to Message 26358.  

Agh...all this is very helpful indeed. I will be looking at the
"build" procedure (new on a virtual machine) this afternoon
with my colleagues. In the past I always built static and I
thought we still were. many many thanks for the detailed
diagnostics. Eric.
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Message 26361 - Posted: 22 Apr 2014, 8:25:31 UTC - in response to Message 26360.  

A similar set of missing dependencies turned up in an Einstein application recently. Bernd's response also implicated static linking:

The problem seems to be that the libstdc++-6.dll is not linked statically into the App. The version of the MinGW compiler that I used for the first time apparently requires an addional option for this (-static-libstdc++).
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Message 26362 - Posted: 22 Apr 2014, 17:36:37 UTC

Right; it looks like a problem on Windows XP. We are now forced to
build on Windows 7 and the executables do NOT work on XP and on
"many/most" server versions of Windows. Our new colleague Xavier
is looking at building with backwards compatibility. This is tricky
because when my Windows PC broke I was forced to Windows 7
and we have no XP system at CERN for testing. Ah well.....I have no
intention of forcing upgrades to Windows 7 0r Vista which seem to
be OK as well. In the worst case I will try our next executables on
boinctest again and wait for feedback. This may seem an obvious
issue but not so easy to check in the database (at least not for me
as I am not a MYSQL expert). After that we shall see if there are other
issues with the API etc. (Maybe I shall post one day to the cafe on how
we are supposed to upgrade to Windows 7, perhaps being forced to buy
new hardware, and PAY more money for software and hardware....)
Xavier is also counting hosts by OS Windows version. Hope to have some good
news very soon and get back to the physics.
Thanks for your patience. Eric.

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Message 26363 - Posted: 22 Apr 2014, 17:53:34 UTC - in response to Message 26362.  

Right; it looks like a problem on Windows XP. We are now forced to
build on Windows 7 and the executables do NOT work on XP and on
"many/most" server versions of Windows.



win7 has "xp-mode". you simply need to install it.
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Message 26364 - Posted: 22 Apr 2014, 22:41:49 UTC
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The page title sounds somehow promising :

https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/linking-applications-using-visual-studio-2012-to-run-on-windows-xp

Here's some more on setting the targeted environment with screenshots :

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2012/10/08/10357555.aspx

p.s.: If you need someone to run the basic standalone (offline) test, just upload the binary somewhere and post the link here, I'm 100% sure a lot of people will jump in and see if it runs on their systems (including me)
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Message 26370 - Posted: 25 Apr 2014, 20:20:11 UTC
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sixtracktest_win32_4509_pni.exe with size 3,899,392 (April 25, 08:30) does not work on my XP x86, the dependency walker reports the same unresolved DLLs
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Message 26373 - Posted: 26 Apr 2014, 10:12:42 UTC - in response to Message 26370.  

Thanks; I think we have a fix but failed to install it
properly. It also had same ID :-( NOT good. Xavier has
built 4511 and we shall install and test again today.
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Message 26374 - Posted: 26 Apr 2014, 10:12:42 UTC - in response to Message 26370.  

Thanks; I think we have a fix but failed to install it
properly. It also had same ID :-( NOT good. Xavier has
built 4511 and we shall install and test again today.
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Message 26382 - Posted: 29 Apr 2014, 17:54:29 UTC - in response to Message 26374.  
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Standalone test : failed on XP :-/

All three sse3/pni binaries are identical btw., win64 and both win32 are the same file.
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Message 26383 - Posted: 30 Apr 2014, 7:13:42 UTC - in response to Message 26382.  

Thanks; that is OK. We have three 32-bit binaries, ia32 (generic),
sse2 and sse3. pni is a copy of sse3. The 64-bit versions are
just copies. (Hope to have an axp when current issues resolved.)
Can run now on some Window 2008 but still fighting XP.
More tests coming. Eric.
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Message 26388 - Posted: 1 May 2014, 12:39:15 UTC - in response to Message 26383.  
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Thumbs up for sixtracktest_win32_4512_sse3.exe (basic standalone test) :

14:37:09 (7720): Can't open init data file - running in standalone mode
14:37:09 (7720): called boinc_finish

It created all dummy result files (including the final ZIP) and shows no weird message boxes anymore :-)

The dependency walker still finds the same missing DLLs but this binary runs anyway.
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Message 26391 - Posted: 3 May 2014, 19:34:00 UTC - in response to Message 26388.  

Same for sixtrack_win32_4513_sse3.exe, works fine on XP
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Message 26392 - Posted: 3 May 2014, 22:48:06 UTC - in response to Message 26391.  

Same for sixtrack_win32_4513_sse3.exe, works fine on XP

Btw., 451.03 is listed as "sixtracktest" but filename is "sixtrack". This might be purpose of course but Justin Case told me to mention it
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Message 26393 - Posted: 5 May 2014, 14:45:43 UTC

Apologies for Version 4515 451.5.
Totally wrong build. Mea Culpa. Eric.
(Version 4513 451.3 looks best so far and
runs on XP...I'll keep trying)
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Message 26394 - Posted: 6 May 2014, 15:47:54 UTC

the boinc 7.7.42 x64 produce a lot of errors for the ne wus on my win7 system
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Message 26395 - Posted: 6 May 2014, 18:47:19 UTC - in response to Message 26394.  

thanks; I'll look at this which seems to be an issue now
we have apparently fixed WXP. Eric.
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