Re: Experimental Microsoft Windows binary

[Dr. Oliver Walter]

Thank you, John Darrington. I tested your installer on a Windows 10 
computer. PSPP was installed, but a DOS window also opened and had some 
warnings:

(psppire.exe:15844): Gtk-WARNING **: 14:50:23.893: Could not load a 
pixbuf from /org/gtk/libgtk/theme/Adwaita/assets/check-symbolic.svg.
This may indicate that pixbuf loaders or the mime database could not be 
found.

(psppire.exe:15844): Pango-WARNING **: 14:51:38.675: couldn't load font 
"Sans Serif Not-Rotated 9", falling back to "Sans Not-Rotated 9", expect 
ugly output.

(psppire.exe:15844): Pango-WARNING **: 14:51:38.910: couldn't load font 
"Sans Serif Bold Not-Rotated 9", falling back to "Sans Bold Not-Rotated 
9", expect ugly output.

(psppire.exe:15844): Pango-WARNING **: 14:53:08.041: couldn't load font 
"Sans Serif Not-Rotated 10", falling back to "Sans Not-Rotated 10", 
expect ugly output.

When I opened PSPP I noticed the new design of the GUI. It looks good. I 
did a simple linear regression analysis and got some results, but I was 
not able to export the PSPP output into a working pdf file: The pdf file 
was created, but when I opened it it was empty. I switched back to my 
former version.

But nevertheless, thank you for your first trial.

Kind regards,

Dr. Oliver Walter


Am 27.03.2021 um 13:58 schrieb John Darrington:
> Recently  people have been asking about w32 builds for the latest
> pspp git snapshots.
>
> I've prepared a self-contained installer executable, for evaluation
> purposes, which you can download from https://filebin.net/xctxjbrd81z3psrw
> This url gets automatically deleted in 7 days, so you'll have to be quick.
>
> This installer heavily builds on the excellent work done by Harry
> Thijssen, so all the credit goes to him.   It has been somewhat
> modified by myself, so any problems are my fault.   However the
> responsibility is yours.   So if this installer destroys your
> hard drive, deletes 12 months of your work, etc. then that's just
> tough luck.  Only use it on a machine where you can risk something
> bad happening.
>
> As always feedback is appreciated.
>
>
> J'