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Re: Starting .exe: DOS prompt OK, double-click not
- From: Michael Pierce <michael at strange1 dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: 24 Mar 2003 11:39:36 -0800
- Subject: Re: Starting .exe: DOS prompt OK, double-click not
- Organization: http://www.strange1.net
- References: <freemail.20030224153505.81470@fm6.freemail.hu>
On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 06:35, Kodaj Bence wrote:
> > > "/cygdrive/c/OurAppFolder/OurScript.tcl": no such file or directory
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > This is a POSIX path.
> > You can translate it to a Windows path using the Cygwin API call
> > cygwin_conv_to_win32_path
>
> Thanks for the tip, but I'm not sure this is the solution. There's a point
> that I might not have made clear enough in my previous posting:
>
> =============================================
> Everything's fine when I start OurApp.exe from a DOS prompt.
> =============================================
>
> Now, OurApp.exe invokes wish like this:
>
> execlp( "wish", "wish", "./OurScript.tcl" , ...);
>
> My question is: why does this call work in the "DOS-prompt mode", and
> why doesn't it work in "double-click mode"? Let me emphasize again
> that wish is invoked _in the same way_ in both cases.
>
> Bence Kodaj
>
have you tried creating a shortcut for the application, *and* specifying
the path in the start in location?
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