I had the same issue in the past with cmsearch in RNA World. Job.xml is part of the workunit and the Windows binary doesn't have the .exe extension. But I don't remember if it was running especially on Windows 7.
Christian Beer schrieb: > 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 > [email protected] > http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev > To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and > (near bottom of page) enter your email address. > -- Rate Me <http://boinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/help_vol.php?volid=29>, MySkype (yoyo_rkn)Skype Me! <skype:yoyo_rkn?chat> , myICQ 139003243 , myIRC <irc://irc.euirc.net/rechenkraft> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rechenkraft.net e.V. <http://www.rechenkraft.net> - Verein zur Förderung von Bildung, Forschung und Wissenschaft durch Einsatz vernetzter Computer weitere interessante Projekte <http://www.rechenkraft.net/wiki/index.php?title=Projekt%C3%BCbersicht>und Hilfe <http://www.rechenkraft.net/phpBB/viewforum.php?f=19>auf unserer Webseite www.Rechenkraft.net <http://www.rechenkraft.net> und im Chat <irc://irc.euirc.net/rechenkraft> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rechenkraft.net e.V. <http://www.rechenkraft.net/> - Non-profit association for the promotion of education, research and science through the use of networked computers other interesting projects <http://www.rechenkraft.net/wiki/index.php?title=Projekt%C3%BCbersicht>and help <http://www.rechenkraft.net/phpBB/viewforum.php?f=19> on our website www.Rechenkraft.net <http://www.rechenkraft.net> and on IRC <irc://irc.euirc.net/rechenkraft> _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
