[EXAMPLE] "Failed to execute: 740" Windows security issue

[What I can do]

OS: Windows 10@64
Compiler: Lazarus 3.8
Project: new totally empty blank Application will not even compile
and produce this error
"Faild to start process 'MyProject.exe'
Error message: 740 "failed to execute :740""
Where do i look to find what is wrong?

[paule32]

Error 740 means that it requires elevation to run. Meaning you must run it as administrator.

[What I can do]

Thank you, YES RClick Lazarus-> Property->Compatiable [X] Run as Administrator

[korba812]

I would not run the development environment with administrator privileges until it is absolutely necessary. By default, Lazarus should not require such permissions so I would advise you to check your configuration, folder permissions or antivirus.

[Thaddy]

OS: Windows 10@64
Compiler: Lazarus 3.8

Lazarus is NOT the compiler. That is FPC. Lazarus is just an IDE and a sophisticated set of libraries.
You probably just need to add a manifest resource with the right elevation request.
How to do that has been explained so many times that I refuse to do it again.
On this forum alone well over a 100 times.
It just needs some reading and is not difficult.

[jamie]

Items need to be installed in root folder along with output path in user space.

[What I can do]

"manifest" found a lot of stuff thanks for the heads up. To be truthful I'm not even sure I understand what a "manifest" is so I got some learning to do but for right now I have a project to finish. If setting admin rights to get through it then so be it. I already have a lot of control, I only code for myself on products that only I use with a computer system that I control every aspect about it. So the biggest danger I face is there is no layer to protect me from myself. I get that.

[speter]

Did you install Lazarus / FPC under "c:\program files" or "c:\"? I believe the installation info recommends against "c:\program files" because of permission restrictions - which kinda sounds like your issue.

Good Luck.
S.

[paule32]

I assume, he use Delphi 7 - which can download on retro sites from the web.
but: this versions need admin rights because they have a Trojan included.
And this Trojan needs admin...

I am faced with this by my good paid anti-virus application.
because, it tell me the BANKERS Trojan.

So, I put down all my Delphi 7 Projects created with Delphi 7.
And jump to Lazarus/FPC

And I spoke: it was a good idea.

[What I can do]

speter no I installed on my USB3 2T drive like under
          "G:\t\Lazarus\development" I also use the short name if I have spaces.

paule32  "Delphi 7" no that was many years ago and it started with turbo pascal 6.0, then Delphi 5, up to Delphi 6 Enterprise, now to Lazarus (FPC) but my very first start was the TRS-80 Color Computer with basic with 4kb of RAM

[paule32]

instead using disk drives, try to connect the drives to a network share.

right click on the drive and click "properties".
in the popout dialog there must be a "sharing" tab.
there you can give the "share" a name and security rights (if the disk drive has the ntfs format - fat32 dont work).
then you can create a "network drive" or "network share" that points to:

\\DESKTOP\share

\\DESKTOP is then the Server (local (host) - or: 127.0.0.1 - or: 192.168.0.0)
\share        is then the Name to the sharing folder/drive

In your Applications, you can then use this share.
This are the pros.

The cons are:
if you plug off the usb drive, it is not guranteed that the drive Letter (G:) is used in the future.
Because USB dynamically gets free drive letters from System.

But (I don't know the exact procedure/process) you should be able to create a VB script or PowerShell script (with elevated rights policy) which can handle the disk drives connected to your System.
I don't know the exact name of this Windows Application, but it shall sounded like "Disk Management".
A Tool where you can set Path to your Volumes.

Use this Tool with caution !!!

Because you can easily format your connected drives/volumes if you have admin rights.
All data will be lost on the format command/menu item action !

[What I can do]

paule32 thank you for the tip but I have hard set the drive letters to all my drives and can activate then buy just adding or removing from the USB port hub. Each drive is directly assigned a hard drive letter which it keeps that assignment even if removed and then reconnected. So on my system all my drives have assigned letters. I used  [Computer Management] ->Storage->Disk Management  (center dual panels and bottom half where the drive graphs are I Right Click to use "Change Drive Letter and Paths" to set them as defaults on my system and yes I love the UNC and even divide my big drives into smaller UNC drives which really helps on some of my older stuff.