Hi,

we have a use case where we want to use the wrapper to deploy a legacy
application. The application is bundled in a zip archive that is
extracted by the wrapper into the slot directory. This application is
called "LegacyApp" and "LegacyApp.exe" on Linux and Windows
respectively. Now comes the problem. We want t include the job.xml file
as part of the workunit not the appversion. This way we can only set one
name "LegacyApp" which causes problems because for an unknown reason
Windows 7 will not start a file without the .exe extension.

I looked through the code and found a place
(https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/blob/master/samples/wrapper/wrapper.cpp#L633)
where we could add some more logic to detect such a case and add the
".exe" extension. Something like: if on windows and app_path does not
exist try app_path+".exe"

Another possibility would be to also add the .exe extension to the linux
executable but who want's to do that? And remember it later when we
wonder why we fixed a Windows Problem on Linux.

Any thoughts on that?

Regards
Christian
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