Re: [cdt-dev] problems with Windows Spawner

[Doug Schaefer <cdtdoug@xxxxxxxxx>]

Can someone confirm whether the starter.exe gets extracted into the
install location or .metadata folders somewhere. There could be a bug
in that very old code that takes care of that.

Thanks,
Doug.

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 4:34 AM, Dmitry Nezhevenko <dion@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 01:58:10PM -0400, Doug Schaefer wrote:
>> > 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.
>
> On Linux and Mac OS X it works from "dropins" as expected. It look like
> only Windows is affected. Probably because "starter" helper binary is
> required only on Windows
>
> --
> WBR, Dmitry
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