CreateProcess question

[jeroen brouwers]

Hi,

I've got this code piece (from Semen I believe) that works just great

Sub ExecCmd(cmdline$)
    Dim proc As PROCESS_INFORMATION
    Dim start As STARTUPINFO
            
    ' Initialize the STARTUPINFO structure:
    start.cb = Len(start)
    ' Start the shelled application:
    ret& = CreateProcessA(0&, cmdline$, 0&, 0&, 1&, NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS, 0&, 0&, start, proc)
    ' Wait for the shelled application to finish:
    ret& = WaitForSingleObject(proc.hProcess, infinite)
    ret& = CloseHandle(proc.hProcess)
    
End Sub

In the cmdline$, I've got both the full path of the program (PBDLL.exe) as well as the .bas file to compile.
One problem: custom installation means an option to install in C:\Program Files\ !

This means: the break is made based on the space, so there's a message saying something : can't find Files\...

I tried seperating the two pieces by single quote and double quotes but that doesn't work. How can I solve this ?

BTW : W2K doesn't have this problem.


Sincerely
Jeroen


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[Fred Oxenby]

In a cmdline you must surround your 'long file name' with quotes
I.e "C:\Program Files\My Dir\My File.My Ext"



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[jeroen brouwers]

You're right but what about this:

My cmdLine$ would be:

C:\Program Files\My Dir\PBDLL.EXE C:\Program Files\My Dir\My File.bas

To tell the compiler to handle the bas file.
I've tried

'C:\Program Files\My Dir\PBDLL.EXE' 'C:\Program Files\My Dir\My File.bas'
"C:\Program Files\My Dir\PBDLL.EXE" "C:\Program Files\My Dir\My File.bas"
"C:\Program Files\My Dir\PBDLL.EXE" C:\Program Files\My Dir\My File.bas
C:\Program Files\My Dir\PBDLL.EXE "C:\Program Files\My Dir\My File.bas"

It keeps saying: "C:\Program Files\My Dir\My File.bas"(0:1) Compiler file not found

(and I'm sure this is the exact location for both files!)

Hope someone knows

Regards
Jeroen



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[Semen Matusovski]

Jeroen --
You mix two moments.
CreateProcess allows to use long names for exe.
PbDll.Exe (99,9% sure) doesn't understand long names, even in "".
Use
Dim TmpAsciiz As Asciiz * %MAX_PATH
GetShortPath "C:\Program Files\My Dir\My File.bas", TmpAsciiz, SizeOf(TmpAsciiz)
CreateProcess ... Chr$(34) + "C:\Program Files\My Dir\PBDLL.EXE" + _
Chr$(34, 32) + TmpAsciiz ...

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[jeroen brouwers]

Thanks Semen, you're right!
I solved this problem and had the problem moved on to the Includes I use.

So the way I handled it is have the needed include files in a subdir of your app and then copy them to a fixed location. After compilation, destroy the copy.

Thanks again
Jeroen

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