I suppose it would be more robust to have the wrapper launch "cmd.exe" with the command line argument of "/k" and then the desired application name. That would then allow cmd.exe to launch the desired application correctly.
.COM/.EXE apps can be launched directly with CreateProcess/CreateProcessEx .VBS/.JS/.WSH would be launched with wscript.exe .BAT/.CMD would be handled by the currently running command interpreter In theory this could also take care of python/perl files as well. As long as the interpreters are installed on the system. ----- Rom -----Original Message----- From: Christian Beer [mailto:christian.b...@aei.mpg.de] Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2016 3:09 PM To: BOINC Developers Mailing List <boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu> Cc: Rom Walton <r...@romwnet.org> Subject: automatic filename extension in windows wrapper 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 _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
