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DavidKinder / Windows-Inform7

Front-end for the Windows version of Inform 7.
http://inform7.com/
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Display an explicit error if i6, ni, or the interpreter is missing from the I7 package #69

Closed erkyrath closed 11 months ago

erkyrath commented 1 year ago

This is stupid, but we keep getting reports where Norton swipes part of the toolchain and carries it off to its lair deep in the maze. To users, this looks like "the game just silently doesn't work" or "the Story pane is blank".

The IDE should detect this case and say "Check your antivirus".

DavidKinder commented 1 year ago

This has already been done, at least for missing interpreters, in commit 0b5f6c631baeda9e9df9429f6812a285b0b5d639. Doing the same for the compilers is a good idea.

erkyrath commented 1 year ago

Whoops! Should have checked the commit history before I posted. Anyway, good, thanks.

DavidKinder commented 1 year ago

This should also cover inbuild too, now.

DavidKinder commented 11 months ago

Commit bcee6df2a07892da5a081c292d169de20e240d3a adds a check of all secondary executables when starting the front-end. If any are missing the user is warned, along with a suggestion that anti-virus might have quarantined something it should not have.