hello,
forgive me that this is off topic because it's not a programming
question, however it does pertain to a win32 application that i've
written in C++ using the MinGW compiler.

the application has been available for download from my website for
about 4 months now. increasingly i've had a number of users complain
that they get a "not valid win32 application" when they try to install.

it's always worked for me, in Vista and XP, and for thousands of other
users, but i'm now seeing a couple of these messages a day.

is there any common cause for this? is it likely that it's just my
webserver service provider sucks and is dropping 1% or more of the
download connections. but i'm wondering if there's any build related
issues that could create platform incompatibilities. anything MinGW
related?

appreciate any suggestions, thanks!
ken

On Nov 19, 7:32 am, ken <k...@nospam.com> wrote:
Assuming it's freeware, can you tell us where it is in the hope that
someone here can reproduce the problem?

Chris

<chrisj.doran@proemail.co.uk> wrote in message
news:8355f786-61a2-4457-a513-31bc66a80b0d@s6g2000prc.googlegroups.com...
-- also mention the actual file size in bytes, so we can check if we got all of
it. And a CRC32, if you can produce one.

[Jw]

ken <ken@nospam.com> wrote:

Same thing here but with CD installation program I wrote.
Users put in my CD with the autorun the setup program and then get "not valid
...".
Usually eject and re-inserting teh CD makes the problem go away.

I would suspect that the problem lies elsewhere.

[Jongware] wrote:
http://pokerwingman.com/download/download_thanks.php
(there is a $40 upgrade to unlock certain features, but you obviously
don't need that to test this download problem)

the byte size for PokerWingmanSetup.exe (as of this writing) should be:
9216000.

i don't know an easy way to calculate the CRC32 for the file. is there
a common utility for this? i can provide an md5sum which is:
PokerWingmanSetup.exe 6b7b9b90fe103f9c199b452d7ac88175

thanks for your attention and help!
ken