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**Eric Pearson** · 9 Aug 2001, 03:30 PM

> the very first things I transferred to it was PB/DLL 6.0.

Did you simply copy the files, or did you use the installation program?

-- Eric

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**Dale Gillilan** · 9 Aug 2001, 03:33 PM

I reinstalled them from my original PB disks.

Dale

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**Lance Edmonds** · 9 Aug 2001, 04:05 PM

Try reinstalling it to D:\PBDLL60 (ie, a SFN path name not a LFN path name).

While the IDE handles LFN paths, the compiler itself is a 16-bit application (which produces 32-bit programs!) and it does not currently support LFN's.

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**Dale Gillilan** · 9 Aug 2001, 04:30 PM

Thanks, Lance

I will try that.

However, the path on my old computer where I'm removing it was:
C:\Program Files\Programming\PBDLL60

and, it worked just fine there....

Dale

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**Lance Edmonds** · 9 Aug 2001, 06:35 PM

The drive number (C:, D:, etc) is irrelevent as long as the INCLUDE path is specified correctly. For example, I have PB/DLL running on Drive F:, PB/CC running on drive G: and have even tested it on a mapped drive from across the network.

I'll be surprised if reinstalling to a SFN path does not solve the problem...

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**Dale Gillilan** · 9 Aug 2001, 08:40 PM

Lance,

I understand, but I don't think I communicated to you. My point was not about the drive. Rather, I have been using a LFN path without any problems at all on my old computer. Why would there be a problem now?

Anyway, I will try reinstalling it as you suggested.

Dale

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**Lance Edmonds** · 9 Aug 2001, 10:37 PM

Once you solve the installation problem, I guess that should become clear...

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**Dale Gillilan** · 10 Aug 2001, 10:02 AM

Lance,

I agree, once I solve the problem, I won't have the question!!

I did what you suggested. It was only a partial solution. The compiler can now find Win32API.inc, but it does not find any other include files. My project include files are in "D:\Project", well within the 8.3 limitation of 16 bit DOS.

1) So, what now?

2) That still does not answer my question as to why it worked just fine on my old machine with LFN's.

Dale

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**Scott Turchin** · 10 Aug 2001, 10:13 AM

My suggestion, having experienced this only once...
Run the uninstall (If any), if not run regedit and clean out the powerbasic registry entries...

Now, I have successfully copied the entire powerbasic PB/DLL from my server to my laptop MANY MANY times without installing, then I run the options to set the pathing and options...works like a champ.

But, when I had an install issue initially I went back and reinstalled after doing a cleanup and that fixed it.
I forget if it's under HKEY_LOCAL_USER OR HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE but there seemed to only be one major powerbasic entry...

Done this on 98 and Nt and Win2k pro and server...

The other thing you *could* do if you have access to the old drive is run regedit and click on teh powerbasic regkey, click Registry/Export Registry file, then go import it the same way in the new computer...old settings are then brought over to the new computer..

Is it supported? Probably not...but it works....

Running an AMD by chance?

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**Dale Gillilan** · 10 Aug 2001, 11:02 AM

Thanks, Scott.

I tried uninstall and reinstall. No improvment.

I looked at the registry on my old system... there are tons of PB entries! Where do I start?

Where did you set the options in PB? Was it in "Windows/Options/Compiler"? That shows the correct path (on both systems). It worked on my old one, but won't work on my new one. It won't even recognize the include files in the same directory as my .BAS file... Is there another place where options should be set?

Thanks,
Dale

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**Tom Hanlin** · 10 Aug 2001, 11:25 AM

Make sure that your Include and RcInclude paths are plain 8.3 paths.
They must not contain spaces or quotation marks. It may be worth
entering these paths again, just to make sure that there are no spaces
at the start or end of the path.

The Include path setting allows for path lists, where the individual
paths are delimited by semicolons. So, your paths should not themselves
contain semicolons.

Make sure all of the compiler paths are 8.3 also.

If this still doesn't do it, try compiling from the command line rather
than from the IDE. This may provide additional information.

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**Dale Gillilan** · 10 Aug 2001, 11:52 AM

Thanks, Tom, but no go!!

The paths are all 8.3, as I said before. There are no spaces or extra characters.

I tried running the compiler from DOS and got the exact same error message (493: can't find WIN32API.INC).

Now what?

And, Scott, I am running Intel.

Dale

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**Tom Hanlin** · 10 Aug 2001, 01:05 PM

Did you specify the location of the include files on the PBDLL command line?
It should look something like this:

d:\pbdll60\bin\pbdll -id:\pbdll60\winapi program.bas

If Win32API.inc is actually in that directory and 8.3 filespecs are used,
I don't know of anything that could prevent it from functioning. Unless,
perhaps, you override the directory in your #INCLUDE statement...?

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**Bern Ertl** · 10 Aug 2001, 01:12 PM

Hi Dale,

Just a thought, since you have not posted any of
your source code...

Perhaps you are #INCLUDE-ing another .INC file which in
turn includes WIN32API.INC if it has not yet been included
(ala COMMCTRL.INC or COMDLG32.INC) and they are specifying
the wrong path?

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**Dale Gillilan** · 10 Aug 2001, 01:18 PM

Tom (and Bern)

The include statement reads:

#INCLUDE "Win32api.inc"

so, I don't think I'm overriding the path. (If I am, I always have and it's worked fine before.)

I tried it again, Tom... with the very same result (error 493).

What now???

Dale

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**Tom Hanlin** · 10 Aug 2001, 01:27 PM

Hmm. "Compiler file not found/accessible." Presuming that it can actually
be found, the problem then would seem to be that the compiler can't read it.
Have you rebooted your computer recently? Perhaps something has the file
locked so that it can't be opened. Or, if you're using NT, Windows 2000, or
XP, perhaps you don't have the appropriate access rights with the logon
you're using. Can you load Win32API.inc into a text editor?

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**Dale Gillilan** · 10 Aug 2001, 02:06 PM

Tom,

I just opened it with Wordpad with no problems. I read all the way to what appears to be the end of the file.

I'm running Win 98.

I have rebooted today... several times...

Is there anything I need to do to a .bat file or other file that is used to initialize the compiler?

Dale

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**Borje Hagsten** · 10 Aug 2001, 02:36 PM

"Tons of PB entries in the registry"? Maybe fault is there? Think only
one needed is: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\PowerBASIC\PB/DLL\6.00\Compiler

If more PB entries is there, maybe compiler reads first if can find
and if that is old one, wrong paths will be given. Manual editing
of the registry, to check and correct paths maybe will help.

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**Tom Hanlin** · 10 Aug 2001, 02:50 PM

The compiler doesn't use the registry entries. Those are just for the IDE.
If it's not working with the compiler (PBDLL.EXE) from the command line...
either there's something seriously wrong with the computer (unlikely), or
some small, simple error is being made that will cause great "D'oh!"s to
rise from the land presently (likely). Unfortunately, it can be hard to
diagnose this sort of problem without being there.

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