Product .exe does not start if # is in folder name

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Product .exe does not start if # is in folder name

Hi everyone,

I was wondering if there is a specific reason, why my eclipse product .exe does not start, if the parent directory of the exe-file contains a #. I am using Windows XP (SP3) and exported my eclipse application. The resulting .exe file saluts me with the following screen:

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Any ideas?

+3 A:

Just a guess.

The launcher is implemented in a way that the command line options are interpreted by a batch script ... and the # is interpreted as the beginning of a line comment.

Edit:

The 'eclipse.exe' loads the 'eclipse.ini'. Here you can make comments with a # at the beginning of the line. This does not prove that eclipse uses a batch script for loading (to be sure one should look at the source), but it is an hint that the comment-assumption is valid.

Arne 2010-07-22 09:40:56

Is eclipse really using a "batch script" to parse the parameters?

pimpf0r 2010-07-23 09:40:57

I'd love to look at the source, but can only find EclipseLazyStarter, of which I doubt is used when launching the product.exe

pimpf0r 2010-07-23 11:29:40

http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/platform-launcher/library/eclipse.c?revision=HEAD

Arne 2010-07-23 13:10:43

Thanks Arne, very kind.But I doubt I have the passion to crawl through all this _tcslen-galore to determine path and location. I assume one of those str-finder reacts allergic towards #.Thank you very much for your feedback. Appreciated!

pimpf0r 2010-07-23 13:29:06

+1 A:

My first guess was wrong. The problem has nothing to do with comments or a batch script. It's a bug in the java code of eclipse. I have filled a bug report:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=320732

Arne 2010-07-23 15:09:49

Wow! Thanks again, Arne.

pimpf0r 2010-07-26 06:32:02

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