Windows XP and erl5.3 error

[Rudolph van Graan]

I have previously done exactly this:

1. Made a new root directory [ROOTDIR]
2. copied the erts-5.3 directory and sub-directories into this (Only 
bin is needed I think)
3. In ROOTDIR\erts\5.3\bin edited the erl.ini file 
Bindir=c:\\ROOTDIR\\erts-5.3\\bin
4. In ROOTDIR\erts\5.3\bin edited the erl.ini file Rootdir=c:\\ROOTDIR 
[Replace the %ROOTDIR%]
5. Copied all the LIB directories to ROOTDIR\lib
6. Made a Bootscript for the system --> mine is 
ROOTDIR\releases\1.0\start.boot
7. in ROOTDIR I made the following batch file to start everything up:

	erts-5.3\bin\erl -boot releases/1.0/start

8. If you want to use the standard erlang boot script you need to point 
the above command to it and make sure that you have access to all the 
libs.

I had some issues with the R9B wanting to access to registry all the 
time, but in R9C the .ini file was added that solved these issues I 
think.

Hope this helps.

Regards

Rudolph van Graan

On Mar 19, 2004, at 10:24 PM, Inswitch Solutions - Erlang Evaluation 
wrote:

> I have also copy de libs (.beams).
>  
> > Why would you want to just copy the exes without properly installing 
> Erlang?
> I wouldn't like to install an SDK in a client machine, just Erlang 
> runtime .exes and libs.
>  
>  
> best regards,
> Eduaro Figoli
> INSwitch Solutions
>  
>  
> ----- Original Message -----
>  From: Vlad Dumitrescu
> To: erlang-questions@REDACTED
> Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 3:58 PM
> Subject: Re: Windows XP and erl5.3 error
>
> > I have copied erl5.3/bin to erli/bin and erl.5.3/erts-5.3/bin to 
> erli/erts-5.3/bin on a machine without
>  > Erlang 5.3 SDK installed. I'm using XP OS and when running erl.exe 
> from erlTest/erts-5.3/bin
>  > it returns the following error:
>  
> I don't think it's possible to just move the bin directories. You have 
> to move the lib directory too, with all the beam files.
>  
> Why would you want to just copy the exes without properly installing 
> Erlang?
>  
> BTW, this brings upa n interesting question: win32reg uses a driver to 
> talk to the win32 registry. That driver is called something like 
> "registry__drv__r", but no such file exists - do I sense a hack here?
>  
> regards,
> Vlad
>  
>  
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