[RESOLVED] How to: Make installer on win XP to work on Win 98

[Matias]

Hi guys, recently i've finished a program. I compiled it, and created the installer (with the install manager that comes with VS 6.0) on a pc with win xp. When i tried to installed on win 98, it literally destroyed the system. Doing a little research, it happen because it overwrited dlls from win98 with the ones from winxp.

Now, the thing is that i don't remember seeing any warnings during the install. And i don't want to try again, because if those warnings doesn't appear it will crash the system again.

So, the question, how do i compile and package a program on windows xp to work in older versions of windows?

I'm trying to get a machine with windows 98, wich would be a not so elegant, yet efective solution, but if anyone can help, it would be great.

Matias.-

[dglienna]

Look in the Application Deployment forum. I think that Inno would install to W98 if you select it using Inno Script as the lowest OS to deploy on. Randem would know for sure. Try his site www.***********

[Matias]

Look in the Application Deployment forum. I think that Inno would install to W98 if you select it using Inno Script as the lowest OS to deploy on. Randem would know for sure. Try his site www.***********

thanks dglienna, i'll try that. By the way, do u know how can i move this thread to it's apropiate forum?

[dee-u]

Only mods and admins could move forums. :)

[dglienna]

They will probably see it. You could always send a PM to martinliss to bring it to his attention.

[MartinLiss]

Moved

[ducky]

I too had troubles crashing a 98 and 2K machine with an app I packaged with the PDW on an XP machine. I found the trouble to be with the PDW including a msvcrt.dll from the xp machine that was no longer compatible with the older os's. I found a microsoft knowledgebase article about it and fixed the 98 machine (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/330314/) Now if I use PDW on an XP machine I remember to remove the msvcrt.dll from the wizard before completing the package.

[Matias]

Thanks. i'll try that. I think that was the problem i had.

[randem]

Matias,

Please read Installation Problems in my signature.