Re: [cdt-dev] problems with Windows Spawner

[Dmitry Nezhevenko <dion@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 01:03:43PM -0400, Doug Schaefer wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 3:46 AM, Dmitry Nezhevenko <dion@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 10:46:01AM +0100, dmsubs wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I have a strange problem that having spent a couple of days debugging, I
> >> can't resolve.
> >>
> >> When I use Eclipse to debug my Eclipse+CDT+plugins application, the Spawner
> >> fails to find "make". It reports "The system cannot find the file
> >> specified". I have tried giving it the complete and full path to make
> >> (c:\path\to\make.exe), and it still reports the same error. However, if I
> >> build my product and run it standalone (i.e. not using the debugger), then
> >> it all works OK.
> >
> > Sometimes Eclipse lying about reason of this error. The reason may be
> > missing native libraries in
> > eclipse\configuration\org.eclipse.osgi\bundles. Just try to search for all
> > "exe" files in specified directory. There should be three or four dll/exe
> > files. If no, eclipse will show such strange errors... It's enough to
> > manually unpack them from one of jar files
> 
> Actually Eclipse doesn't lie, it's the error message we get from
> Windows. You will get this error if DLL's are missing. 

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.

-- 
WBR, Dmitry