Re: [cdt-dev] problems with Windows Spawner

[Doug Schaefer <cdtdoug@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Dmitry Nezhevenko <dion@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

Really? That's interesting. I really worry about the dropins
directory. It's how CDT is installed on Linux (or Fedora at least) so
it's been tested there. But on Windows, I don't think we get that
scenario tested as much.