Packaged exe can not work

[atusoft]

When run it on windows10 64bit, get a shoes console window, show 'uninitialized constant "MZ\x90" . The app working fine start by shoes

[ccoupe]

Packaged apps on Windows 10 have problems with Microsoft's security settings. It may work if you package with 'the download if needed' option. Packaging 'include Shoes' often fails for most Windows 10. See this discussion

[atusoft]

I got same issue on XP sp3, and tried with or without download if needed, did not work

[ccoupe]

Which version of Shoes are you using. How big is the bundled app.exe with Shoes? When the download if needed was tried did it launch an installer? - It should. The shoes_console window and uninitialized constant suggests something is broken in the launch.

[atusoft]

I am using 3.3.1 r2509, exe size is 52M. I saw downloading when first lanuch.

[ccoupe]

52MB !! Shoes is just 13MB compressed on Windows. It's a clue. XP support is iffy. Try to install Shoes on the XP machine first to make sure it runs there, if so, run your package app - it'll pickup the installed Shoes instead of the one in your exe. I'm guessing it going to get the same error but it's the only way to make sure.

I vaguely remember seeing that error once but I forget what the cause was. What OS is your system that is doing the packaging. We need to make sure it doesn't have a cached download that is bad - the cache location varies by OS.