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Re: [cdt-dev] problems with Windows Spawner

I think the problem is that users tend to drop 
the org.eclipse.cdt.core.win32 bundle in its 
jar form by simply extracting it from the master 
archive, but this bundle is meant to be unpacked.  
When it is properly installed, it works.

Toni 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Doug Schaefer
> Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 4:09 PM
> To: CDT General developers list.
> Subject: Re: [cdt-dev] problems with Windows Spawner
> 
> 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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