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Inno and NSIS don’t generate msi packages apparently – however why not try MSIX creation in Advanced Installer Express from the MS Store? First up in the MS recommended list. Pretty sure it deals with basic things like startmenu and desktop shortcuts, and then a couple of extra goodies thrown in for good measure. Seems like they have a well-established forum for reference, too. 🙂

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What might be the best advice is not to converse ad nauseum with barbers on the subject of hair disposal for fear of a developing Sweeney Todd episode. 😛
The 10 yr. old seedless Valencia orange keeled over, not completely though as the stems are still flexible. It’s always something in the soil being the root cause of the issue, so to speak.
Grabbing a sweet sarsparilla from a retailer nearby isn’t as easy as it sounds, due to seed acquisition and propagation. Many of these plants produce seeds which require the digestive systems of certain birds for germination, which may not go all that well in a partly degraded environment. Finding them in their natural habitat also comes with the caveat of getting there before the wildlife, and occasioning any fruit found on our dioecious catch.

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They have been doing that for years now – and yep – should have coded it in PS. It’s yet another one to learn, along with the more Pythonesque AHK v2 – plus a bazillion other things such as Pascal for XEdit scripts.
Haven’t received any feedback on it via NexusMods at least – one is always wont to ride under the banner of no news is good news – even though it could turn out to be a rather bumpy journey. 😛

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Neither here with the standard 23″ monitors, did find that a power reset of the offending monitor in a Windows session makes it go away – at least before the next power off. More testing with Sleep required.
Updated TranspTester, might be worth a look at on Windows sometime – have you considered a virtual box for an older W10 build?
Not a fan of passkeys or digital IDs, yet gov wants us to transition. Do you use any of those? Over here still with the UserId + pwd as of yore, a little glitchy now, likely due to neglect/indifference from the host.

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Dr. Sleep paid too much lip service to The Shining in attempting to regurgitate old themes and tying up loose ends. Still, B+ movie might be worth a gander for the screams and tension if nought else appeals.
Still haven’t got into any new series yet – my preference – (as the box is playing up as per) so sticking to movies for now.
Was absolutely sure there was a mention of the number 42 (as a reference to a number of company employees perhaps) in one of the old movies from IA … – … or somewhere else – the memory of it is gone now. Anyhow did report the one from Anatomy of a Murder – in itself a fine movie, but not free, and won’t make it to FTA any time soon either. 🙂
Oh, and Stay is a fabulous movie – though we had a sly sneak into the Wikipedia plot line for verification of the ending. Also checked Google for the well-known artist Tristan Reveur. 😛 Not a crowd pleaser though – according to some critics.

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Inno’s not bad – although someone at the VB forums often referred to it as No-No Setup. 😛
Seems the Wix toolset has all the info on the xml – have you seen this?
https://www.advancedinstaller.com/versus/wix-toolset/create-wix-custom-dialog-user-input.html

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That’s fine, and the shortcuts & start menu stuff returned. 🙂
Still, the user installation screens should make those optional, looks like you want the install dialogs with Wix Toolset for that. 🙂

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Think so. yes. License is fine. 🙂

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The program itself is fine now. 🙂
There are no start menu or desktop shortcuts implemented at all now, did you want that? There’s still no option in the install dialog
for those shortcuts, which might explain it.

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The DLLs and dat files are in the share folder, which like the bin folder, is a subfolder of the MWEdit folder. The executable in the bin folder doesn’t see them yet. 🙂
Yeah, some of the files are in it are older, so no problem – see:
https://superuser.com/questions/8012/what-is-the-hidden-system-config-msi-folder

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Ah, yes, it has to be run on a Windows based system before copying the game over to Linux. Not sure about Windows Server – will it run on Wine?

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There’s no Licence agreement, and it’s best to include a prompt to run the show at the final install step. There’s a folder called Config.Msi created in the C: directory. The bin and share folders look okay, as you know, the exe aborts because of the missing DLLs.
Also a choice of whether the user wants desktop shortcut and a folder created in Start Menu\Programs.

As far as testing goes, we’ll want to check UpperLowerProper for Morrowind on Linux at some stage – any luck yet?

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They have a pretty cool albeit pricey locomotive set for the Deutsche Reichsbahn, out of stock at this time:

The tail is just about to come off the toy, Jaffa is showing no concerns for it whatsoever! 😛
A cow hoof in the bedroom – was that for a shoe stretcher -or did she intend re-imaginings for a new look decor?
The hypnotising effect of the Weasel War Dance was recently debunked on a local radio program – still looks like the stoats are having fun:

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Have it outside! The neighbours are sure to want to get involved, even when the theme is atomic! Come to think of it, a model nuclear plant is sure to pique the interest of local boffins – particularly around the rather refreshing subject of coffee.
Here’s a video of Jaffa. the new pup:

One with Shem

Jaffa resting. 🙂

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Ah, okay, and the lack of responses to this ResIL issue are a bit of a worry as well. Those input_Libs look good even they are all in C – seems the same with the DevIL sources.
Sounds good, go with including the DevIL code modules rather than compiled DLLs looks to be a better option, although a C++ version of everything would be a plus. 🙂
The link for sources is broken:
http://openil.sourceforge.net/libs/LibSrc.zip
There’s bound to be usable and more up-to-date C++ sources for all those somewhere, but where?
Been looking at whether to get VS or VSC for Morrowind – see:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30527522/what-are-the-differences-between-visual-studio-code-and-visual-studio
For the sheer size of Morrowind it has to be VS no? Are you running that on Windows Server?
Edit: Going with VS of course! MFC, SDK, MSVC and especially CLang use a fair bit of space – some way of leaving any of them out?

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Looks good! Haven’t got things set up yet, sorry. Syntax-wise it certainly looks sturdy enough, if need be there’s always CMake: How to Unit-Test your own CMake Script Macros/Functions?.

Aah, you mean the DevIL component is impacting on the issue with Meson? If so, might be an idea to update it, hopefully with new insights from the current config. 🙂

Is there any chance of decoupling DevIL entirely and pointing the referenced functions to the new ResIL source with minimal drama?

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Someone mentioned monitor blanking was not a problem in Linux with the same setup, so, well, had to share it. 🙂

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Yeah, guessing that’s what the library machine type 'x86' conflicts with target machine type 'x64' warnings are on about. It would be easy to check that in the vcxproj files for Windows projects, unlikely they would have built it with anything other than cmake though.
Couple of threads of interest, Hello, there is no 64-bit Debug version under the window and Best DevIL version to use? Should ReSIL be used over DevIL?

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Oh cool, so NimrodPSI used Meson to build DeviL at some stage? The DeviL docs do say:

CMake is used to handle building DevIL across multiple platforms.

See README.cmake for details.

See what you mean – I’d rebuild them all to x64 machine, else there’s a world of pain ahead. 🙂

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Linux may have a problem with dll’s? See for example:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2538635/possible-to-use-a-dll-on-linux

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