What I do know for certain is that manually tweaking (aka hacking and bodging !) the manifest apparently resolves the problem fully. By 'wrong' I mean WinXP doesn't much like what's being done although other OSs may well not be quite so picky about it of course.
It would seem to me that there is almost without doubt something 'wrong' with the way Audacity is being compiled and/or the way the redistributables are being included. However, I've been doing some poking around in the meantime. Why exactly has my last post documenting download sources and suggesting there is some issue with the way Audacity is being compiled/packaged rather than some issue with downloaded data not appeared as yet ? Seems very strange that you've posted another reply but my message has not appeared at all. There just has to be something very silly and pretty obvious going on here even if I'm too blind/stupid to see it ! Many thanks Is there perhaps something else that needs to be updated on WinXP systems and/or included in the zip file ? If not then any thoughts/suggestion on what I'm missing here and how I can get current versions of Audacity to run sensibly under WinXP would be appreciated. It seems to me that there has been a change in compiler after V2.0 legacy version based solely on there being different redistributable DLLs in the zip file. The legacy version of V2.0 is apparently intended for Win98/ME primarily. All recent versions of Audacity claim to run on XP of course.
My system is an antique PC running WinXP/SP3 unfortunately but I believe it's as up-to-date as is possible given the status of XP. Typical download files as below, the first 2 versions work the rest do not:
The zip files were primarily obtained from Sourceforge but I did also try other sources of V2.0.6 which had the same contents and they wouldn't run either. However, the legacy version of V2.0.0 works fine as do various V1.2.x versions. I recently downloaded the V2.0.6 zip file but when I unpacked everything and tried to run Audacity, good old Windoze claimed "audacity.exe is not a valid Win32 application"Īfter much b*ggering about, it appears the same thing applies to all V2.0.x versions that I tried.
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