Windows XP 64 Bit and Audacity 1.3.8

[Mr_Ada]

I have not been able to get Audacity to work for some time on my Windows XP 64 Bit OS. Anyone have any luck?

chris

[Gale Andrews]

I have not been able to get Audacity to work for some time on my Windows XP 64 Bit OS. Anyone have any luck?chris

We've been through this in great detail, and it is unhelpful to keep raising the topic in different threads and places without referring back to the correspondence it relates to. To begin with please answer the questions I posed here:
http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... =20#p30080


Gale

[Mr_Ada]

Gale,

Yes we have and I have done everything that was suggested in that prior posting to no avail. That was also for the 1.2 series and this issue now is with the 1.3.8 series. This time the issue is different and appears to NOT be an OLE issue. The error involved "wxbase28u_vc_custom.dll".

The real question is has any audacity developer, with a Windows XP 64 system, with all of the latest Microsoft updates, ever recompiled audacity and tried to run it successfully? It would seem that this hasn't happened.

I am not trying to be difficult but Gale you seem inclined to being snotty with me on this issue. The reality is that I love Audacity and I really want to use it on my Windows system! Sure I can use it on my Linux side of my system, however, it is a real pain to go back and forth with Linux and Windows. And now that I have a MOTU sound system, I cannot get sound out of Linux any more so my reliance on Windows is even more so important.

I have tried to compile the source code but I think I lack all the necessary parts. I'll dig again into this and try build audacity myself as no one is taking me seriously here.

Good day,
chris

[Gale Andrews]

Yes we have and I have done everything that was suggested in that prior posting to no avail. That was also for the 1.2 series and this issue now is with the 1.3.8 series. This time the
issue is different and appears to NOT be an OLE issue.

Fine, but until you tell us that, we don't know.

The error involved "wxbase28u_vc_custom.dll".

That doesn't help us, Chris, neither do phrases like "doesn't work" and "had any luck". We need to know exactly what the current problem is with 1.3.8. Have you checked this topic? If Audacity won't launch, please tell us that and give us the exact error that you receive - ALT + PrtScr to capture it, then post it here. We also need to know what sound devices you have set as default in Windows system mixer, and the contents of your audacity.cfg settings file, if you have one. Please paste it in or attach it to a post.

If the sound device you are trying to use has not produced appropriate 64-bit drivers, that could be the issue. We are tied to the capabilities of the PortAudio Audio I/O interface and that is relatively picky about working with appropriate drivers.

The real question is has any audacity developer, with a Windows XP 64 system, with all of the latest Microsoft updates, ever recompiled audacity and tried to run it successfully? It would seem that this hasn't happened

Audacity Beta has been tested on XP64 and I know of multiple reports of it working thereon if the user has appropriate 64-bit drivers for their sound device.

I am not trying to be difficult but Gale you seem inclined to being snotty with me on this issue. The reality is that I love Audacity and I really want to use it on my Windows system! Sure I can use it on my Linux side of my system, however, it is a real pain to go back and forth with Linux and Windows. And now that I have a MOTU sound system, I cannot get sound out of Linux any more so my reliance on Windows is even more so important.

The reality is we are all volunteers and if people continually start new "one-sentence" topics with no useful description of the problem and no reference to information contained in previous discussions it simply wastes our time, and no-one will feel inclined to help you. Also when you are asked direct questions when we do try and help you, you don't always answer them, as in December last year.

I have tried to compile the source code but I think I lack all the necessary parts. I'll dig again into this and try build audacity myself as no one is taking me seriously here.

Unless you want ASIO there is absolutely no point in you compiling Audacity - if you want the latest development code, simply grab the latest Windows "Unicode Release" Nightly Build here. Help us to help you (as most people who come here do) by giving us meaningful information to go on, responding if we ask you for information, and from now on, keeping everything in this thread.


Gale