Can you use procmon.exe to see which folders get searched then? On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 2:07 AM, Matthew A. Postiff <posti...@comcast.net> wrote: > Thanks Ray. Unfortunately, the path already contains the directory where tar > and gzip reside; in fact, I have it as the first entry in the path. > > > On 2/20/2017 7:06 PM, Ray Donnelly wrote: > > Then tar is looking only in PATH. You can use _putenv() at the top of your > program to add the directory your program is in (Get ModuleFileName) to > PATH. > > On Feb 18, 2017 8:57 PM, "Matthew A. Postiff" <posti...@comcast.net> wrote: >> >> Thanks Oscar. I already have gzip.exe in the same directory as tar. If I >> run gzip by itself from the command line, it works. If I run tar -cf by >> itself, it works. Only when I do tar -czf ... does it fail with the gzip >> cannot exec error. >> >> Matt >> >> >> On 2/18/2017 2:34 PM, Óscar Fuentes wrote: >> > "Matthew A. Postiff" <posti...@comcast.net> >> > writes: >> > >> >> I have a Windows gtk program that I build in an msys2 environment, and >> >> the program itself uses some msys2 utilities. I copy the ones I need >> >> into the C:\program files\myprogram\bin with the idea that I don't have >> >> to install all of msys2 to run the program. In my program I spawn the >> >> command tar -czf >> >> >> >> Tar breaks because it cannot find gzip. >> > You need to copy gzip to your binaries directory, along with any dll it >> > requires. >> > >> > >> > >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most >> > engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Msys2-users mailing list >> > Msys2-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/msys2-users >> > >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most >> engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot >> _______________________________________________ >> Msys2-users mailing list >> Msys2-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/msys2-users > >
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