Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: strange1net.gotdns.org: mpierce set sender to michael@strange1.net using -f Subject: Re: Starting .exe: DOS prompt OK, double-click not From: Michael Pierce To: cygwin@cygwin.com In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: http://www.strange1.net Message-Id: <1048534776.3227.8.camel@strange1net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: 24 Mar 2003 11:39:36 -0800 On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 06:35, Kodaj Bence wrote: > > > "/cygdrive/c/OurAppFolder/OurScript.tcl": no such file or directory > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > This is a POSIX path. > > You can translate it to a Windows path using the Cygwin API call > > cygwin_conv_to_win32_path > > Thanks for the tip, but I'm not sure this is the solution. There's a point > that I might not have made clear enough in my previous posting: > > ============================================= > Everything's fine when I start OurApp.exe from a DOS prompt. > ============================================= > > Now, OurApp.exe invokes wish like this: > > execlp( "wish", "wish", "./OurScript.tcl" , ...); > > My question is: why does this call work in the "DOS-prompt mode", and > why doesn't it work in "double-click mode"? Let me emphasize again > that wish is invoked _in the same way_ in both cases. > > Bence Kodaj > have you tried creating a shortcut for the application, *and* specifying the path in the start in location? -- Michael michael@strange1.net http://www.strange1.net GPG ID:1D630EF7 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/