On Mon, 14 Jun 2010, Lawrence Chisesi wrote:
Hello, I have just purchased a new home PC which came with windows 7
and an intel 64 bit CPU. I am pretty experienced with GRETL, been
running it on my 32 bit laptop for some time. I downloaded the May 2
version onto my new system and I can load a file in from Excel, but
when I do something, like sort by a field, it crashes without any real
error message. Is there anything I need to do to get it working on
this system?
I'm not able to test on Windows 7, or any 64-bit Windows system,
and offhand I have no idea why there should be a problem running
gretl on 64-bit Windows. There's supposed to be a 32-bit
compatibility layer.
It might help gather relevant information if you run gretlw32.exe
with the "--debug" option flag, and note exactly what you are
doing when the program crashes. When you say "sort by a field", do
you mean sorting the contents of the main window by clicking on
the column titles? That's a GTK operation, but I can't find
reports of problems with GTK on 64-bit Windows by googling.
Allin Cottrell