On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 6:41 AM, Christoph <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have a problem with jenkins stable on win7, running as system > service, installed as described by the documentation. > I use CodeBlocks as IDE and it can be trigered by command line, so i > made a .bat file that builds my projekt using CodeBlocks command line > execution. > The .bat works exactly as intended when started by hand. > > The problem: > Jenkins hangs forever on the execution of the .bat file as soon as > there is a gui call. > > If i write other things before the Codeblocks line, it works to. like > "echo hello" or something. > Jenkins does that successfully. > But writing "explorer" into the .bat does not. Executing the same .bat > manually however, i get an explorer window from win7. > > How can I execute GUI frames from within jenkins? > I have to use the CodeBlocks ide, for compiling a huge projekt with > several builds using several compilers. > > Thanks > Chris
Are you running Jenkins as a service? If so, you need to make sure that the service has the ability to interact with the desktop, see [1]. Now, that being said, what options are you passing to CodeBlocks? slide 1 - http://lostechies.com/keithdahlby/2011/08/13/allowing-a-windows-service-to-interact-with-desktop-without-localsystem/ -- Website: http://earl-of-code.com
