[haXe] Haxe 1.11 installer freeze and troubles with PATH

[Asger Ottar Alstrup]

Hi,

I tried the Windows haxe 1.11 installer, but it freezed at 21.5% of the neko
download. I could not close the window using the cross. The process took 0%
CPU. I stopped the process using the task list, and tried again. This time
it froze at around 50% of the neko download. The third time, it did get the
neko.zip, but stopped the haxe download at 96.2%.

I'm switching back and forth to other applications while it is downloading,
and my internet connection is fine all the time.

The fourth time, it reused the successful neko download from the third time,
and managed to get the haxe zip as well.

Now I have the problem that has been discussed a few times:

C:\>haxelib install arctic
Uncaught exception - module.c(121) : Builtin not found : varargs

Looking at the path, it has an entry "C:\Programmer\Motion-Twin\haxe\neko\"
which I guess should be "C:\Programmer\Motion-Twin\neko\".

In turn, I can see that I have also the NEKO_INSTPATH variable pointing to
"C:\Programmer\Motion-Twin\haxe\neko\", which explains the wrong PATH entry.

So it seems there is a bug with the setting of the NEKO_INSTPATH environment
variable.

But fixing this manually to be "C:\Programmer\Motion-Twin\neko\" does not
fix the problem. I guess something is wrong in the registry as well.

So I start regedit and search for "haxe\neko", but does not find anything.
Hm, strange.

OK, I inspect the path again to see if there are any old haxe or neko
installations there, but there are not. Well, it must find something
strange, so I manually move the corrected %NEKO_INSTPATH% to the front of
the path, and now it works.

So I guess that the installer could put NEKO_INSTPATH in front of the path,
rather than at the end to make it more likely that Neko will work.

(I also tried moving HAXEPATH in front of NEKO_INSTPATH to see if that was
any different, but it seems that does not matter: It works either way.)

Regards,
Asger
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