Starting .exe: DOS prompt OK, double-click not

Ronald Landheer-Cieslak ronald@landheer.com
Mon Mar 24 12:15:00 GMT 2003


On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, Kodaj Bence wrote:
[sbip]
> (The actual Tcl/Tk installation on my machine is ActiveTcl 8.4., but
> that's not really important.)
Windows doesn't understand POSIX paths..

> Now, when I double-click on OurApp.exe in Windows Explorer, I get the 
> following error message from wish:
> Error in startup script couldn't read file
> "/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

See http://cygwin.com/cygwin-api/func-cygwin-conv-to-win32-path.html for 
details

HTH

rlc


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