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multiple windows make quirks

mcandre — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 05:36:40 -0000

Hi,

I am interested in seeing a more intuitive make port for Windows. I recently endeavored to install make ephemerally on a Windows Jenkins node, and noticed some oddities about the GnuWin32 make distribution.

Strangely, make for Windows is packaged as two separate ZIP files. This causes confusion and accidents. Can we please merge these together into a single archive file?
When the second ZIP's DLL's are missing from the make installation, then make behaves quite strangely. In PowerShell, it silently dies with a zero, fake healthy exit code. No text message displays in the console. In Command Prompt via non-tty contexts (e.g. Jenkins CI/CD jobs), no text message displays in the console. The only sign of installation corruption arrives by running make.exe from a graphical (e.g. RDP) session. The current error handling is inadequate.
EXE installers are often ambiguous. I never know whether they are meant to launch an application directly vs. install it. Can we please promote the classical installer to a modern MSI?

#36 install-info.exe on Windows 10 fails with "This app can't run on your PC"

Jay Satiro — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 19:57:27 -0000

status: open --> closed-invalid

#36 install-info.exe on Windows 10 fails with "This app can't run on your PC"

jdb2 — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 19:19:45 -0000

Well, I don't know what went wrong but I removed the installation and download directories and then re-installed everything from scratch and now everything works fine. :) You can close this bug.

#36 install-info.exe on Windows 10 fails with "This app can't run on your PC"

Jay Satiro — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 23:09:01 -0000

Possibly you accidentally installed gnuwin32 over itself, refer to #22. Try it from scratch.

#36 install-info.exe on Windows 10 fails with "This app can't run on your PC"

jdb2 — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 22:52:33 -0000

HA! :D Well, this might explain something :) It's 0 bytes :) Somehow it's not getting installed properly or downloaded.

#36 install-info.exe on Windows 10 fails with "This app can't run on your PC"

Jay Satiro — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 22:34:04 -0000

What size is install-info.exe

#36 install-info.exe on Windows 10 fails with "This app can't run on your PC"

jdb2 — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 20:37:03 -0000

That should be "17134.523"

install-info.exe on Windows 10 fails with "This app can't run on your PC"

jdb2 — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 20:32:33 -0000

This is just a duplicate of what I posted to the "closed-invalid" bug report ( https://sourceforge.net/p/getgnuwin32/bugs/32/ ).

This is indeed an open bug. Windows will error out with "This app can't run on your PC". I can reproduce it on my Windows 10 Pro x64 machine which is running off of an Alienware 17 R5. I get the error after install.bat starts up the "Finished with packages. Fixing manifests and info entries..." process.

I'm running Microsoft Windows 10 Pro version 1803 (OS Build 17134.23) and I can confirm that this bug is present.

I can confirm that just running install-info.exe re-produces the problem.

install-info.exe on Windows 10 fails with "This app can't run on your PC"

jdb2 — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 20:32:33 -0000

Ticket 36 has been modified: install-info.exe on Windows 10 fails with "This app can't run on your PC"
Edited By: Jay Satiro (raysatiro)
Status updated: u'open' => u'closed-invalid'

#32 On Windows, install.bat keeps trying to run some program that can't run on Windows, creating a chain of events forcing me to power off my computer and restart it

jdb2 — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 20:26:39 -0000

I can confirm that just running install-info.exe re-produces the problem.