[X2Go-Dev] BUG REPORT - X2Go Client 3.99.2.1-rc2 does not work on Windows XP

[Stefan Baur]

Am 18.04.2012 15:06, schrieb Mike Gabriel:
> Hi Stefan,
>
> On Mi 18 Apr 2012 14:47:45 CEST Stefan Baur wrote:
>
>> Am 18.04.2012 14:30, schrieb Mike Gabriel:
>>
>>> This sound like a VC++-redistributable runtime issue. I had the same
>>> effect with PyHoca-GUI. I have not dived fully into that, but placing
>>> this file into the folder %programfiles%<application>Microsoft.VC90.CRT
>>> solved my Python specific issue...
>>> http://code.x2go.org/gitweb?p=pyhoca-contrib.git;a=blob;f=mswin/ms-vc-runtime/Microsoft.VC90.CRT.manifest;h=5c8f69ad56428922addae95e32520997738fb89c;hb=74ed44ebd5f59d0eb28c89ede0beca711416089a
>>>
>>
>> This will break x2goclient's portable mode, where we should not copy
>> files into system directories.
>
> For PyHoca-GUI the files get shipped in
> %ProgramFiles%PyHoca-GUIMicrosoft.VC90.CRT. So, in PyHoca-GUI case, no
> system path.

Duh!  Sorry, brain fart.  I was thinking of %SystemRoot%.  Indeed, if 
the file simply has to reside in the same directory as x2goclient.exe, 
this should work with portable mode as well.

-Stefan