Description Kenneth Ölwing 2005-04-28 15:41:50 EDT

I want to build a plain command line app. Setting this up with 'PDE - Product
Configuration' and then building using 'Eclipse Product Export Wizard', the
normal eclipse.exe is copied (and renamed if desired - for this example to foo.exe).

The expectation is now to be able to use foo.exe as any commandline app - piping
in/out of stdout/err etc, checking the exit code etc etc.

Currently I have identified a few issues:
1) Starting the exe, it is not synchronous to my shell. This is because the exe
file is linked to the 'windows' subsystem rather than the 'console' subsystem.
This can be worked around by using a tool such as 'dumpbin'.
2) Exit code processing is not transparent. a) exit codes 23 and 24 are
specially recognized, and b) any exit code other than those and 0 will pop up a
messagebox. Whatever the exit code, the final exit code to the calling app will
be 0.

A suggestion is to make it possible to indicate in the product configuration
wizard that the intended use is as a 'normal' console app, so that the copied
launcher has correct console subsystem linking, as well as becoming completely
exit code transparent.