Re: [cdt-dev] problems with Windows Spawner

[Doug Schaefer <cdtdoug@xxxxxxxxx>]

That's probably it. But we should be able to take care of this in a
different way, similar to how DLLs are automatically extracted. A bug
report will help us track this.

Thanks!
Doug.

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Leherbauer, Anton (Toni)
<Anton.Leherbauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I think the problem is that users tend to drop
> the org.eclipse.cdt.core.win32 bundle in its
> jar form by simply extracting it from the master
> archive, but this bundle is meant to be unpacked.
> When it is properly installed, it works.
>
> Toni
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Doug Schaefer
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 4:09 PM
>> To: CDT General developers list.
>> Subject: Re: [cdt-dev] problems with Windows Spawner
>>
>> Can someone confirm whether the starter.exe gets extracted into the
>> install location or .metadata folders somewhere. There could be a bug
>> in that very old code that takes care of that.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Doug.
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 4:34 AM, Dmitry Nezhevenko
>> <dion@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 01:58:10PM -0400, Doug Schaefer wrote:
>> >> > Yeah, Actually not lie, but error may be received from
>> Windows while
>> >> > Eclipse tries to start it's own "starter.exe" binary
>> (that should start make in
>> >> > future) instead of real "make.exe".
>> >> >
>> >> > I'm experiencing this issue when CDT is installed to
>> "dropins" directory
>> >> > of eclipse.
>> >>
>> >> Really? That's interesting. I really worry about the dropins
>> >> directory. It's how CDT is installed on Linux (or Fedora
>> at least) so
>> >> it's been tested there. But on Windows, I don't think we get that
>> >> scenario tested as much.
>> >
>> > On Linux and Mac OS X it works from "dropins" as expected.
>> It look like
>> > only Windows is affected. Probably because "starter" helper
>> binary is
>> > required only on Windows
>> >
>> > --
>> > WBR, Dmitry
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