Zorro 2.50 is now available on https://zorro-project.com/download.php

List of new features: https://manual.zorro-project.com/new.htm

This release candidate will become the official release when no bugs are found in the next time. Please test everything and report any issues here! As usual, if you're the first one to find a new and serious bug in the release candidate, you can get a free Zorro S subscription or support extension. This time the chance is particularly good because we switched to a new compiler and to new versions of many libraries.

New version: 2.50.1, same link

Fixes: advise() produced sometimes a different result in 64 bit, and profile.c contained a duplicate variable definition.

Version 2.50.2.

2.50.1 still had a bug.

In the zorro.h headers, these functions overloads are defined:

I had a situation where I was overloading with (BOOL, char*, const char*), so this was an ambiguity error. Either the char* overload should be removed, or two variations with (BOOL, const char*, char*) and (BOOL, char*, const char*) should be added.

Also, if ifelse() is using a const char*, shouldn't it be returning a const char* instead of a char*?

Yes. In that case cast the char* to const char*.

The two overloads cover almost all cases where ifelse is used with Zorro functions or indicators. The second overload returns a char' because it is for arguments of type "string", which convert to const char', but can in fact be passed to functions that accept char*.

We didn't want to inflate zorro.h even more with even more overloads or template variants. In some cases you really need a typecast, not only for ifelse.

C++: tradeUpdate() with no arguments does not have an overload. I only see this overload in the Lite-C headers (default.c).

In fact, none of the functions has a real overload in C++. They convert to variants with appended "0" or "1".

We'll rename tradeUpdate() to tradeUpdatePool() in the next update. You can already enter this line in zorro.h:

inline int tradeUpdatePool() { return tradeUpdate(0,0,0,0,0); }

Hi, I am having difficulty to install the 2.50.2 Version. The error message is, that the VCRUNTIME140.dll is missing and the advice to reinstall. With the 64-bit version also no success, complains about missing mfc140.dll. I have uninstalled all old versions, and installed from scratch, the same error messages. Is it a bug or some setup problem of my desktop ? I mean the Zorro is installed with no error message, but Zorro.exe does not start.

Thank you for any advice, ...

No bug or setup problem, but apparently a PC without a VC runtime.

Please get it here:

https://opserver.de/down/vcruntime140.zip

and unzip it in the Zorro folder or in your windows/system32 folder. Maybe it's not the only DLL missing - please let us know if you then still get a missing DLL error. We'll pack all those DLLs in the setup.

The 64 bit version won't directly run on your PC anyway. You must really install the 64 bit runtime as described in the manual.

Hi jcl and thank you for the prompt support. The library did not help. After unzipping it into Zoro folder, the application does not start again and this time with just a message "the application could not be started", no hints about any other missing libraries.
Do I understand you properly, if I install the 64bit MS Visual Studio in the computer, the problem will be solved ? MS Visual Studio is now free, so this is for me no extra costs option.
Also, is there any benefit from 64bit architecture ? I am just training and testing own scripts, writen directly in Zorro "simple C".