Hi,
Sometimes when I rebuild an app that someone else has created, I run build.bat (having done no other changes) and the build completes successfully.
However, when I launch the application it says 'Unable to Open' (it previously launhced).
Checking the .bin folder I can see the newly built .dat and .msi are a fraction of the oriinal size.
The app was a snapshot on 4.6.2 (confirms in 'Capture Machine Overview.txt'), and I am rebuilding on 4.6.2.
I tried running relink.exe incase of slight difference to thinapp version, then followed by build.bat - same issue.
Has anyone else experienced this? Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks.
You could try to delete the %AppData%\Thinstall\ThinstallBuilder directory.
Phil
Thanks for your suggestion Phil, just tried that and rebuilt - same issue.
have you tried building on another machine or rebooting the machine you are on? You could also run a command prompt, navigate to the project folder and run build.bat from there.
Phil
Are you building the app from a network share or locally?
Thanks for replies. Have copied it from network share to local. Have rebooted.
A colleague tried rebuild this morning and it worked.
I'm currently downloading 4.7 - will let you know if this works.
Just spotted similar thread:
http://communities.vmware.com/message/1868098?tstart=0
Cheers,
Mike.
Figured out what the issue was.
When I rebuild the app I always do it from a command prompt so I can see if there were any issues.
This time I just double clicked the build.bat and it worked. So issue only exists when run build.bat from cmd. I will always double click in future!
The same issue existed with 4.7, which is dissapointing.
Thanks for all the replies!
Sounds like something else is going on, because I always run build.bat from command prompt. Must be a different issue.
Technically, ThinApp doesn't have to be "installed" in order for it to work. You do need to define the THINSTALL_BIN environment variable.
See this thread for more detail: http://communities.vmware.com/message/1854821#1854821
