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Title: MASM32 v 9 install failure?
Post by: Re_Boot on July 24, 2006, 02:20:43 AM
Greetings, I had a HD crash and had to reinstall everything. Masm32v9r installed but from Qeditor the tool bar commands would not locate script or batch or help files. I figured it was a path issue and tried setting the path to reflect the \masm32\bin directory(path=%path%;c:\masm32;c:\masm32\bin,  Im using XP and I used control panel>system>advanced>evironmental variables). Any suggestions?
Title: Re: MASM32 v 9 install failure?
Post by: hutch-- on July 24, 2006, 02:52:08 AM
As long as your XP is properly set up and working, I would be inclined to remove all of the installation and start again. The install is always partition specific but make sure you don't move it from its install directory to another as the paths will all fail. You will also get on some occasions the same problem if you try to build projects in a directory that has spaces in the path or directory name.
Title: Re: MASM32 v 9 install failure?
Post by: Re_Boot on July 24, 2006, 03:01:15 AM
Quote from: hutch-- on July 24, 2006, 02:52:08 AM
As long as your XP is properly set up and working, I would be inclined to remove all of the installation and start again. The install is always partition specific but make sure you don't move it from its install directory to another as the paths will all fail. You will also get on some occasions the same problem if you try to build projects in a directory that has spaces in the path or directory name.

I've tried that several times. I like this package so much I went and reinstalled XP again to insure it wasnt a OS installation problem. Using XP media center, wich is XP professional with a media package addon. What confuses me is before the crash I had masm32v9r working fine
Title: Re: MASM32 v 9 install failure?
Post by: hutch-- on July 24, 2006, 03:19:21 AM
Start the editor directly from the MASM32 directory and see if it finds the help files and so on to see if something else is interfering with the path. The install is design so that you never need to set the environment as this often causes other problem with incorect paths to other setups you may have on your machine.
Title: Re: MASM32 v 9 install failure?
Post by: Re_Boot on July 24, 2006, 10:42:01 PM
Quote from: hutch-- on July 24, 2006, 03:19:21 AM
Start the editor directly from the MASM32 directory and see if it finds the help files and so on to see if something else is interfering with the path. The install is design so that you never need to set the environment as this often causes other problem with incorect paths to other setups you may have on your machine.

Tried that and everything works as should. Appears a usb flash drive that I keep source on will not work from masm32, causing the tool bar scripts not to execute. Im just going tp mirror the project folder onto the usb flash drive and call it good. BTW, masm32 is truely a great package. Thanks again.

Re_Boot