That actually explains a lot. I figured it was more of a convention than a requirement. Glad I asked.
V/R, William On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 5:42 AM, anatoly techtonik <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 4:22 AM, William Blevins <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Team, > > > > I have a really dumb question (probably). > > Dumb questions are the most interesting. =) > > > Some of the SCons tests that execute binaries have code to check whether > or > > not the platform is win32. If win32, then add ".exe" extension to the > > executable name. Is this a requirement or just a convention? > > > > Can you not run an executable on Windows that doesn't have the extension? > > Native Windows file systems doesn't have flag that marks file as > executable, so it uses file extension to figure that out. Well, you > still can specify custom commands to run for specific extensions > http://stackoverflow.com/a/1936078/239247 > _______________________________________________ > Scons-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://pairlist2.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/scons-dev >
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