[pde-dev] packaging an exe with a plugin and running it while debugging

["Jesse Corrington" <jesse.corrington@xxxxxxxxx>]

I am working on an eclipse plugin where I need to package an exe with
it and run it from my plugin code. I can bundle the exe with the
plugin, but I am not sure how to run it when I am debugging the plugin
through eclipse. I figured I could just get the path to it in my
Activator.start(), using context.getBundle().getLocation(). However,
when debugging the plugin, this is not a real path on disk. Is there
any way I can launch this exe while debugging the plugin?

Also,
to bundle the exe with the plugin I had to select for the pluging jar
to be extracted when installed, so the exe was outside of the jar.
However, this is not exactly what I want. I really want the plugin to
be installed in a folder with a jar file for the compiled source, all
the other necessary plugin files, and the exe file. How can I
accomplish this.

Thanks for all the help,