[BRLTTY] Windows First Run

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Chevelle on 2019/10/06 at 20:34 -0400]

>I don't have Windows 7 any more.  

Can you test an older brltty (like the 5.2 you knew was working before on
Windows 7) to see if it, too, doesn't work on Windows 10?

>I think one problem with Windows 10 is that the device driver fails to install
>even if you log in as administrator.  I got around it by using run command
>prompt as Administrator.  Maybe that should be added to the README file.  For
>example, one way is to tap the windows key, then type comm to find Command
>Prompt.  Then tap the applications key and arrow up and down to Run As
>Administrator and press enter.  Make sure you hear the chime and the User
>Account control Dialogue comes up, and answer yes.  Then run the install.bat
>file.

Is tehre, rather, something we could add to the .bat file? Just guessing (as
I'm not a Windows person) but could it maybe be done by running brltty as an
operand to the cmd.exe command, which, in turn, could be run from install.bat?

>I still don't have it working.  The message
>
>BRLTTY 6.0 rev unknown comes up if you run 'brltty' manually.  n.  I don't know if that is harmless or not.
>I may try more experiments later this week.

Do you mean the "rev unknown" bit? That's harmless. It just means that brltty
was built outside of the working tree of the repository (which is indeed done
for the Windows build). To be ,more precise, the working tree is copied to
another locaton but its /git/ subdirectory isn't. Perhaps this could be
resolved by using the (now available) "git worktree" command within the mkwin
script.

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