[haXe] Haxe 1.11 installer freeze and troubles with PATH

[Nicolas Cannasse]

> Hi,

Hi Asger, and thanks for the detailed report.

> 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.

First time to hear that.
Did you had already similar problem with haxelib download ?
Could you move the window around, was the app responsive ?

> 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.

Yes, but this is supposed to have been fixed a long time ago...
Are you using latest installer version ?

> 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.

The only problem that can still be is that you have in your PATH a
directory where an old neko.dll has been put before installer was
available. Check and remove it. The order of NEKO_INSTPATH in the path
should only cause a problem in that case.

> 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.

That's only in case of neko.dll available somewhere where it should not.
In case of old haXe installation, HAXEPATH is replaced so there is no
old directory in PATH.

Nicolas