. We can download an mount the disk image, but when I try to run the installer it just quits after a few seconds of spinning blue circle. No error message, no freezing up - just quits.
We updated the system software, including the update mentioned in WPILib, turned off the fire wall, and confirmed we downloaded the correct disk image. We have successfully run WILib tools/VS Code in the past on this computer, last time was 2019.
The WPILib documentation doesn’t seem to indicate that Windows 8 is unsupported this year. Does anyone have any ideas on what to try short of updating to windows 10 ?
Having said that, I wouldn’t use that machine on the internet, at least not without upgrading to windows 10 first. There are ways to get that upgrade for free, and I’ve found that win10 actually runs better than win7/8 on older hardware, so that shouldn’t be too much of a concern.
Though if you absolutely must use it as is, I’ll leave it to others (most likely the wpilib team themselves) to help troubleshoot the installer.
I replied to the GitHub issue created, but Windows 8 is not something officially supported by either WPILib or Microsoft. As said above, Microsoft dropped support for it back in 2016, and it was basically completely replaced with Windows 8.1. Because of this, we never test on raw Windows 8, and its probably missing a dependency .NET needs. Theoretically you should be able to update to Windows 8.1 and get things working without needing to go to 10, but as said above 10 usually runs better then 8.1 on most hardware, and is free, so is probably worth going all the way. We are dropping anything before 10 from WPILib support next season unconditionally, so even if you upgrade to 8.1 it will not work next season.
