Re: [HTCondor-users] Windows Installer error on Condor-23.0.1

[John M Knoeller <johnkn@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

We switched to a newer version of the MSVC compiler in 23.0,  but that's not really the issue.  The big change is that Microsoft no longer allows us to include an installer for their c-runtime libraries inside the HTCondor installer.   The HTCondor 10.4 installer has the Microsoft c-runtime 14.0 installer inside it.    HTCondor now uses the Microsoft 14.1 c-runtime, which we are not allowed to include inside of our HTCondor installer. 

The other change is that the HTCondor 23.0 installer runs a small c++ program that creates some IDTOKENs as part of the install process.   It is that program that is failing to run during the installation process when the c-runtime library is missing.  That is causing the installer to report a failure.

Windows should ship with a sufficient c-runtime for our needs, but it clearly does not always do so.   

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From: Sam.Dana@xxxxxxxxxxx <Sam.Dana@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2023 9:52 AM
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Cc: John M Knoeller <johnkn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Windows Installer error on Condor-23.0.1

 

Have the prerequisites for installing HTCondor changed from 10 to 23?
I missed where this change is reflected in the documentation.

When I updated to 23, version 10 still showed in Programs and Features.
Is this expected behavior? 

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Sent: Monday, October 30, 2023 12:42:15 PM
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This usually means that you don’t have the right version of the c-runtime libraries installed.  You have to get those from Microsoft.

 

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=msvc-170#visual-studio-2015-2017-2019-and-2022 [learn.microsoft.com]

 

-tj

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From: HTCondor-users <htcondor-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Sam.Dana@xxxxxxxxxxx <Sam.Dana@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2023 1:46 PM
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Subject: [HTCondor-users] Windows Installer error on Condor-23.0.1

 

I am getting this error message when running condor-23.0.1-Windows-x64.msi

on Windows Server 2019 and Windows 10 Enterprise N LTSC. 

As a sanity check, I ran and installed condor-10.4.2-Windows-x64.msi on same Windows 10 machine, no errors. Installed as CM only.

Sam Dana

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