On 23/05/2011 20:01, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
Hmmm so MySQL, Libreoffice, Cron and Apache....so why is this a Windows server again ? :)
It's definitely possible that it would have been easier to get the actual application running under Wine on Linux!
(I have tried that in the past and failed at the install stage, but not tried very hard. At least if it doesn't work under Windows nobody points their fingers at me for playing!)
Unfortunately I have encountered amongst other things 3rd party apps and services that simply will *not* run on a 64bit build of Windows
Bizzarely (to me anyway) this software includes some simple forms that interact with DBF databases, and they just don't work on 64-bit (they think records have changed when they haven't and don't save changes regardless). My theory is that in this case (and knowing the history of the app) there may be some legacy 16-bit code lurking somewhere - I know that 64-bit Windows has dropped support for 16-bit apps, and I know for example that I've been unable to install some patches because the installers were (probably) 16-bit.
Mark Rogers