This last interaction shows "javaw.exe", whereas the others used "java.exe". Is that difference significant?
As a wild guess, I wonder whether filesystem soft links might be related, since I never got around to supporting those on Windows (sinc they're relatively new to Windows). At Thu, 6 Dec 2012 19:09:24 -0500, Tim Nelson wrote: > It actually _is_ in my PATH already: > > > (find-executable-path "javaw.exe") > #<path:C:\Windows\system32\javaw.exe> > > (getenv "PATH") > "...;C:\\Windows\\system32;..." > > (Other members of PATH omitted.) Weird, huh? Something is wonky. I even > tried changing the capitalization of "system" on the off chance that case > mattered, but nope. > > Ben: Thanks for the ref. I should have thought to look at the C code. > (Would Racket blinders cause Racket to ignore some of its own code? ;-) ) > > On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 7:00 PM, Danny Yoo <d...@hashcollision.org> wrote: > > > > > > > On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Tim Nelson <tbnel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Thanks for the hint Danny. I didn't know about that function... but I'm > >> sorry to say that > >> > >> > (find-executable-path "java.exe") > >> #f > >> > >> whereas from cmd: > >> > where java > >> C:\Windows\System32\java.exe > >> > >> so the command line knows about it, and I can use it, but it is concealed > >> from Racket, even via find-executable-path. That's probably a more concise > >> statement of my problem! > >> > >> > > Ugh. Ok, that was _supposed_ to work. > > > > Out of curiosity, what happens if you add C:\Windows\System32 to your PATH? > > > > (I know that's not the right solution, and it sounds like there's some > > Windows weirdness involved here.) > > > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
