Thread: distributing postgresql binaries

I have developed an application using Zope and Postgresql and I want to
be able to distribute the application with a full database of data so
that there are no setup worries for users. The platform is Windows. When
I copy the app over to windows XP home, Postgres refuses to start and I
get a cryptic 'Application is configured wrongly' message from windows.
It seems that the absence of registry entries (done some testing) is the
problem. Is there a distribution that will run when copied from one
machine to another without writing anything in the registry? By the way,
I tried the binaries only install from the download area for 8.3.7 and
it won't start either with the same error message. Any help would be
much appreciated.
Regards
Garry

Why not populate the registry properly?

It is not that difficult to do.


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Alan McKay wrote:
> Why not populate the registry properly?
>
> It is not that difficult to do.
>
>
>
Good idea, but where do I find the correct entries?
Regards
Garry

Garry Saddington wrote:
> I have developed an application using Zope and Postgresql and I want
> to be able to distribute the application with a full database of data
> so that there are no setup worries for users. The platform is Windows.
> When I copy the app over to windows XP home, Postgres refuses to start
> and I get a cryptic 'Application is configured wrongly' message from
> windows. It seems that the absence of registry entries (done some
> testing) is the problem. Is there a distribution that will run when
> copied from one machine to another without writing anything in the
> registry? By the way, I tried the binaries only install from the
> download area for 8.3.7 and it won't start either with the same error
> message. Any help would be much appreciated.
> Regards
> Garry
>
I have solved this problem. It's not the registry that is the problem it
is the visual c++ runtime that is missing on Windows xp home. Installing
vcredist_x86.exe as supplied with the msi installer corrects the problem.
Regards
Garry