Posted by Hans Salvisberg on 2005-04-03 18:13 CET

I just had a problem with a user trying to run Borland C++ 5.02 on a Windows XP Pro computer in a non-privileged account. She would get a message box "Make failed", and in the Message window: Could not load: tlink.exe One of the reasons why this can happen is if BC5 is installed under "C:\Program Files". This can cause all sorts of problems. Instead just install it under C:\BC5. However, there is a second problem: The IDE tries to create a file named C:\$$PIP$$.$$$ to communicate with tlink.exe, but non-privileged users are not allowed to create files in C:\! Here's the solution: 1. Create C:\$$PIP$$.$$$ from an Administrator account 2. Open Properties|Security, select the Users group and click the [Advanced] button. 3. Select the Users group again, click the [Edit] button 4. Click "Full Control" in the "Allow" column and "Delete" in the "Deny" column. 5. Keep clicking [OK] and [Yes] to close all dialogs. This ensures that all users can write to C:\$$PIP$$.$$$ and at the same time keeps them from deleting it, because the permission to write to the file would be lost if the file were deleted. BTW, you'll probably want to create a directory such as C:\PDEV (like "Program Development") for hosting your projects, because BC5 may have problems with path and file names that don't follow the old 8+3 convention. You can get BC5 to open in that directory by default by editing C:\WINDOWS\BCW5.INI. P.S. All this most likely applies to Windows 2000 as well.

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