Re: chksetup.js output
By: MRO to Digital Man on Sun Apr 26 2026 10:46 pm
> Re: chksetup.js output
> By: Digital Man to MRO on Sun Apr 26 2026 01:05 pm
>
> > environment variable would have been set already as well. The fact
> > that the prerequisite MSVC libraries weren't already installed (as
> > demonstrated in the video) is another good clue that Synchronet
> > wasn't previously installed on that system.
>
> well it's not a clue. i said that. i told you i was updating it in a vm.
"updating in a vm" is not the same as "upgrading a non-installed Synchronet".
> the sysop runs his bbs on shitty windows 8 so i made a vm to update it to
> make sure things would run for him.
Maybe actually install it first, next time.
> > > after i set the environments and ran it again it worked correctly.
>
> > I don't see anything to change from my perspective.
>
> if you run the update, and you type in the path in the update program the
> updater script wont use that path and expects sbbs/. it should atleast nag
> the person to set the environment variable. and i thought we didn't have to
> do that manually anymore?
You don't have to, *if* you're using the default install location ("c:\sbbs") -
if you're using a custom/non-standard install location, then yes, you need to. A
nd the installer does it for you - when you use it.
> it would be ideal if the update script actually used the path it asks the
> user to provide. https://i.imgur.com/NX3gcEd.png
It will in the next release. But it also would've worked just fine had you just
installed sbbs before upgrading it.
> in the install i typed in the correct path to the synchronet install, and
> the update script still expects sbbs
It defaulted to \sbbs\ctrl because the SBBSCTRL environment variable wasn't set.
> And why are you still using the windows registry when you have all these ini
> files?
Because that's how Windows tracks what applications are installed and where they
're installed. You can't do that with .ini files.
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