The thread on Boinc 4.44 noted that the commandline control was included, I wonder if that also made it into 4.45, or if the 4.44 boinccmd.exe works with the 4.45 core client.

I don't have IE 5 or better, so can't use the full installer. The optimized core client works quite well, but adding boinccmd.exe would make it more flexible.

Perhaps those offering the optimized boinc.exe for download would be kind enough to offer boinccmd.exe also?

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                                             Joe

The thread on Boinc 4.44 noted that the commandline control was included, I wonder if that also made it into 4.45, or if the 4.44 boinccmd.exe works with the 4.45 core client.

I don't have IE 5 or better, so can't use the full installer. The optimized core client works quite well, but adding boinccmd.exe would make it more flexible.

Perhaps those offering the optimized boinc.exe for download would be kind enough to offer boinccmd.exe also?

You don't need to install IE5. Just install the newer version of the installer. Get it here

And the BOINC 4.45 package does include boinccmd.exe.

The thread on Boinc 4.44 noted that the commandline control was included, I wonder if that also made it into 4.45, or if the 4.44 boinccmd.exe works with the 4.45 core client.

I don't have IE 5 or better, so can't use the full installer. The optimized core client works quite well, but adding boinccmd.exe would make it more flexible.

Perhaps those offering the optimized boinc.exe for download would be kind enough to offer boinccmd.exe also?

You don't need to install IE5. Just install the newer version of the installer. Get it here

Thanks for the pointer, but it didn't help. MSI installs just fine (as it does from the boinc-4.45-intelx86.exe) but as soon as it starts to install boinc it quits with a messagebox saying "Internet Explorer 5 or greater needs to be installed for this installation to continue."

The boinc_win.h header file in the source, which is included by many of the other source files for a windows build (including the installer setup), has

#ifndef _WIN32_IE
#define _WIN32_IE 0x0500
#endif

which I think tells the compiler it's OK to use features of IE 5. Some
other header files also conditionally set that define, as does the
win_idle_tracker.cpp source. That may explain why the core client
notes that idle tracking fails to initialize on my Win95 system (I don't
care because I want to crunch as much as possible).

And the BOINC 4.45 package does include boinccmd.exe.

That's good news, it ought to work with Tatsuji Maverick Rai's optimized 4.45 boinc versions. Actually, I'd expect the 4.44 version to work as well because the RPC interface pretty much has to be able to work across versions.

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                                             Joe

The thread on Boinc 4.44 noted that the commandline control was included, I wonder if that also made it into 4.45, or if the 4.44 boinccmd.exe works with the 4.45 core client.

I don't have IE 5 or better, so can't use the full installer. The optimized core client works quite well, but adding boinccmd.exe would make it more flexible.

Perhaps those offering the optimized boinc.exe for download would be kind enough to offer boinccmd.exe also?

You don't need to install IE5. Just install the newer version of the installer. Get it here

Thanks for the pointer, but it didn't help. MSI installs just fine (as it does from the boinc-4.45-intelx86.exe) but as soon as it starts to install boinc it quits with a messagebox saying "Internet Explorer 5 or greater needs to be installed for this installation to continue."

The boinc_win.h header file in the source, which is included by many of the other source files for a windows build (including the installer setup), has

#ifndef _WIN32_IE
#define _WIN32_IE 0x0500
#endif

which I think tells the compiler it's OK to use features of IE 5. Some
other header files also conditionally set that define, as does the
win_idle_tracker.cpp source. That may explain why the core client
notes that idle tracking fails to initialize on my Win95 system (I don't
care because I want to crunch as much as possible).

That last was a bad guess. The idle tracker is in boinc.dll which I didn't have.

It turns out that it is possible to get MSI to extract the boinc files even on a system without IE, by using an "administrative installation". After the original install attempt errors out, copy the boinc.msi file it left behind in

C:\\WINDOWS\\Downloaded Installations\\{5B7B52CF-9DBD-43B0-B04E-A4B989284EB7}\\

to a new folder which will be easy to use from the command line (I used C:\\BOINCMSI). Then from a command prompt which has access to msiexec.exe do

msiexec /a [path to]\\boinc.msi

That brings up installshield in the right mode, when it asks where to do the install select the newly created folder and the files will be saved to subdirectories of that.

Note that the {5B7B52CF-9DBD-43B0-B04E-A4B989284EB7} subdirectory name will change for a different version of boinc.

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                                             Joe