Glom Windows Installer

Monday, February 4. 2008

Here it is, Glom's installer for Windows. Thanks to the opinions on my last blog entry. I set up an all-in-one installer, so Glom should run out of the box after installing (please tell me if not). It includes GTK+ from SVN with my patch from bug #506062 (hint, hint) so that recent files filtering works.

Since most people seem to use NSIS for Windows installers (comment on this blog entry, gtk-win.sourceforge.net) I also had a look at it. However, the scripting language reminds me more of assembly than anything else, and I think these days are over. So I used InnoSetup which has Pascal scripting for the rare cases you need it.

The only thing that is not going to work is python scripts for buttons and calculated fields. Ideally, one would just install Python and PyGtk, and having Glom use that installation automatically when present. This shouldn't be too hard, it just needs to tell python where to find the own gda and glom python modules. I am going to tackle this after my physics exam on Thursday.

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I updated the installer. It now includes jpeg62.dll and python25.dll which were missing (thanks to the reporters on my initial post). I also included the glom and gda python modules. If I do understand things right, then installing Python and pygtk makes

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I'm afraid the installer fails here, with an error of a missing DLL. I have no other GTK applications or GTK installed...

#1 Glomsbert on 2008-02-06 11:24 (Reply)

Thanks for trying out. Could you please tell me what DLL is missing?

#1.1 Armin Burgmeier (Homepage) on 2008-02-06 12:27 (Reply)

python25.dll is missing when launching Glom.exe, and I have a "jpeg62.dll missing" message from gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders.exe at the end of the install process. (default options) on Win XP SP2

#1.1.1 Pierre-Yves on 2008-02-06 15:14 (Reply)

Hi,
At the creation of a base, I have a popup saying that a "child command failed" because the "Execution of PostgreSQL by a user with administrative permissions is not permitted".

I'm the only user of my PC, and there is no way I would create an additional user for using the software.

Any idea how I could solve this?
Thx

#2 Gwenael on 2008-03-07 18:30 (Reply)

postgres does not start under a user with administrator privileges. That makes sense on Linux, but is a bit annoying on Windows, though it isn't probably a good idea to work around it somehow (if possible).

What version of Windows are you using? I tried with Windows XP and could easily create a new user with restricted access. Another option is to download postgresql manually on http://www.postgresql.org and let it run as a service in the background. Glom can use it if you do select "Create a database on an external server", and specify "localhost" as hostname when Glom asks for it.

#2.1 Armin Burgmeier (Homepage) on 2008-03-07 19:31 (Reply)

I'm on Windows XP Pro.

Of course I know how to create a new user. The the reason I don't want to it that 1) I have to do system operations every day, and 2) If I use Glom, I will use it several time a day.
So I don't want to have to switch from one profile to another just to be able to view one reccord in a db!

I'll try to install a postgresql service.

#2.1.1 Gwenael on 2008-03-07 20:10 (Reply)

mmm....
I installed pgsql, created a user in pg.

I can connect on the pgserver using pgAdmin with the login/pwd I defined, and see .

But when I start glom, create a db, and try to connect on it,
I have a popup that says something like "Connection failed. Glom could not
connect to the DB server, ...."

Any thoughts? Any log I could send you?

I noticed that Glom tries to connect to the DB "glom_mydb" (as mydb is the name of it). This db doesnot exist obviously. I understood that Glom will create it?

#2.1.1.1 gwenael on 2008-03-07 21:57 (Reply)

It would probably be useful to know what glom prints to stdout. I am not sure whether you can access that easily on Windows.

Anyway, I just tried and I experience the same problem on linux. It seems that glom wants to connect on port 0 for some reason, which fails. I will have a look.

#2.1.1.1.1 Armin Burgmeier (Homepage) on 2008-03-07 22:15 (Reply)

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