[Gretl-users] Re: Problem with gretl 1.7.0 (fwd)
I'm forwarding a reply I sent recently with regard to gretl 1.7 on
win9X, in case anyone else hits ths issue.
Allin Cottrell
From: Allin Cottrell
To: Dirk Van de putte
Subject: Re: Problem with gretl 1.7.0
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Dirk Van de putte wrote:
I installed gretl 1.7 (after removing the previous version
1.6.5) on my laptop (Windows Me - as the hardware doesn't allow
Windows XP), but was unable to open the program afterwards. Even
reinstalling the program didn't help, so I had to revert to
gretl 1.6.5
That's correct, I'm afraid: gretl 1.6.5 was the last version to
support Windows 9X (including ME). Gretl 1.7.0 and higher require
an NT-based version of Windows.
I thought I had modified the gretl-for-Windows web page to reflect
this, but I see I haven't; I'll fix that.
The reason for the change is that we've updated the version of
GTK+ used by gretl, to take advantage of new features and numerous
bug fixes, and newer versions of GTK+ won't run on Win9x because
they use the "cairo" graphics library, which in turn uses some
APIs that are implemented only on NT-based Windows.
Linux would probably run fine on your old laptop ;-)