setup.exe command line options

Robert Collins robert.collins@itdomain.com.au
Wed Oct 31 17:37:00 GMT 2001


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [ mailto:cgf@redhat.com ]
> >
> >Have you tested this? AFAICT the __argv is for -mconsole 
> programs only,
> >with the main prolog initialising them in the msvcrt dll 
> init... which
> >in setup is not happening. 
> >
> >Or, IOW, __argc and __argv have been meaningless on every test I've
> >done.
> 
> Yes.  I tested it with -mwindows -mno-cygwin.  I couldn't print to the
> console in that case so I ran it under the debugger.

I'm only ever getting the program path, not the additional arguments...
I assume I'm doing something wrong?!

FWIW, I'm building on win32.

Rob



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