On 8/27/2024 6:47 PM, John Primo wrote:
I am downloaded Drats it downloads fine but when i go to open the
program I get an error message, when i go to click ignore, I still
cant get drats to run
Downloaded from where?
I have stopped attempting to build python eggs for releases for now as they are a bit of effort to maintain, and it is simpler to maintain a checkout of the D-rats repository on a system setup with the D-rats dependencies, and we do not have enough active volunteers create and test packages.
What installation procedure did you use?
D-Rats is a Linux Python program that requires a Linux emulation environment in Microsoft Windows.
The only such known environments are Msys2, Cygwin, and MobaXterm (Cygwin). Of these MobaXterm seems to be the easiest to maintain.
Microsoft Windows does not provide a complete Python runtime environment, and the GTK project required by D-Rats does not provide a working build procedure for building it using Microsoft Compilers.
This is the current installation procedure on Microsoft Windows:
Currently this installation procedure appears to work from Microsoft Windows 7 and later versions, although support for versions of Microsoft Windows earlier than Windows-10 is being very rapidly dropped by the libraries that D-Rats depends on for running.
Note that the 0.3.9 and older version of D-rats are not getting any bug fixes and has a known bug in that it will drop some messages received over the radio. That bug may show up more on newer faster computers.
The "Default" installation of Microsoft Windows 10/11 now tries really hard to get you to create a Microsoft account which sets up your user directory differently than what older versions of D-Rats expects so on those systems, Older D-Rats will fail to start.
I am showing that as fixed in the current 0.40 repository.
Until we get a volunteer that can come up with a better Windows installation package than installing and running from inside MobaXterm, that is what we have.
73,
-John
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