Julia 0.2pre-WINNT has trouble running on Windows XP

[feraudyh]

I tried running test-julia.bat and got the following message
fatal: error thrown and no exception handler available.
The other batch files like jula.bat just did not work either.

Under windows 7 (64 bit) most of the tests passed.

[vtjnash]

I have not been able to reproduce this issue. Can you provide more information on you setup? A new binary was uploaded earlier today, can you see if it works?

[feraudyh]

Hi,
  Funny thing the same executable runs on one XP machine and not the other.
In the second case here are the messages

E:\Downloads\Languages\Julia\julia-dbac83fb44>julia
fatal: error thrown and no exception handler available.

E:\Downloads\Languages\Julia\julia-dbac83fb44>test-julia
fatal: error thrown and no exception handler available.
Appuyez sur une touche pour continuer...

as for test-julia it doesnt run on the first machine, complaining that c:\documents is not a command
(looks like it does not like the space between c\documents and what follows)

I'm very enthusiastic to keep this testing going.
I wont have time to report on windows 7 behaviour till next week.
Henri

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Cc: Henri de Feraudy [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 8:04 AM
Subject: Re: [julia] Julia 0.2pre-WINNT has trouble running on Windows XP (#3313)

I have not been able to reproduce this issue. Can you provide more information on you setup? A new binary was uploaded earlier today, can you see if it works?
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[goszlanyi]

I have tested the latest 0.2pre binary with 32-bit Vista and 64-bit Win7.
In both cases the following code freezes Julia.

julia> addprocs(1)
This type of handle for stdio is not yet supported on Windows (0, 17)!

Running test-julia.bat also stops and freezes at the parallel section.

[vtjnash]

consolidating issues. see #3634