<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Banibrata Dutta <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:banibrata.dutta@gmail.com">banibrata.dutta@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Jake Anderson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yahoo@vapourforge.com" target="_blank">yahoo@vapourforge.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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On 28/09/10 14:58, Banibrata Dutta wrote:
</div></div></div><div class="im"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div></div><div>In attempting to install PythonCE (latest, downloaded from
sourceforge), using the PythonCE.WM.cab file, on a Windows CE 6.0
mini-laptop (7" screen w/ 800x480 res, ARM VT-8500 300MHz CPU, and
256MB DDR, 2GB Flash SSD), I get the following message popup...<br>
<br>
<b>Setup Failed:</b> The application cannot run on this device type.
Please install the application specific to this device type.<br clear="all">
<br>
Could someone kindly explain the reason why the Setup Failed. In the
past I've installed several application which are originally WM apps,
successfully on this WinCE6.0 device, without any issues.<br>
<br>
What could I do, to have PythonCE installed on this machine ?<br>
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sounds like its not liking whatever CPU is set in the cab<br>
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</blockquote></div><br>Thanks for the reply, Jake. AFAIK, the CPU for which the PythonCE.WM.cab is built, is ARM (family). Of course, ARM family is quite wide, and slight differences do exist in instruction set, this is almost the first time, I ran into this could of trouble. :-)<br>
<br>Would building PythonCE (cross compiling) specifically my machine help ? <br clear="all"><br></blockquote></div><div><div class="e"><div><br>Wondering if this is the culprint... this is what I find in the _setup.xml inside the .cab file!! Which effectively means that that cab would not install when OSVersion = 6.00 !!!<br>
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<div style="margin-left: 1em; text-indent: -2em;"><span class="b"> </span> <span class="m"><</span><span class="t">parm</span> <span class="t">name</span><span class="m">="</span><b>ProcessorType</b><span class="m">"</span><span class="t">
value</span><span class="m">="</span><b>2577</b><span class="m">"</span><span class="m"> /></span> </div></div>
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<div style="margin-left: 1em; text-indent: -2em;"><span class="b"> </span> <span class="m"><</span><span class="t">parm</span> <span class="t">name</span><span class="m">="</span><b>OSVersionMin</b><span class="m">"</span><span class="t">
value</span><span class="m">="</span><b>4.0</b><span class="m">"</span><span class="m"> /></span> </div></div>
<div class="e">
<div style="margin-left: 1em; text-indent: -2em;"><span class="b"> </span> <span class="m"><</span><span class="t">parm</span> <span class="t">name</span><span class="m">="</span><b>OSVersionMax</b><span class="m">"</span><span class="t">
value</span><span class="m">="</span><b>5.99</b><span class="m">"</span><span class="m"> /></span> </div></div>
<div class="e">
<div style="margin-left: 1em; text-indent: -2em;"><span class="b"> </span> <span class="m"><</span><span class="t">parm</span> <span class="t">name</span><span class="m">="</span><b>BuildNumberMin</b><span class="m">"</span><span class="t">
value</span><span class="m">="</span><b>0</b><span class="m">"</span><span class="m">
/></span> </div></div>
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<div style="margin-left: 1em; text-indent: -2em;"><span class="b"> </span> <span class="m"><</span><span class="t">parm</span> <span class="t">name</span><span class="m">="</span><b>BuildNumberMax</b><span class="m">"</span><span class="t">
value</span><span class="m">="</span><b>-536870912</b><span class="m">"</span><span class="m"> /></span> </div></div>
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<div style="margin-left: 1em; text-indent: -2em;"><span class="b"> </span></div></div><div class="e"><div style="margin-left: 1em; text-indent: -2em;"><span class="m"><br></span> </div></div></div></div></div>Don't know enough of Windows development to say for sure.<br>
-- <br>regards,<br>Banibrata<br><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/bdutta">http://www.linkedin.com/in/bdutta</a><br><a href="http://twitter.com/edgeliving">http://twitter.com/edgeliving</a><br>