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Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 09:43:38 -0600
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From: Clinton Jeffery <jeffery@segfault.cs.utsa.edu>
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In-Reply-To: <3504D0C8.14B2@gte.net> (message from Mark Evans on Mon, 09 Mar
1998 23:34:00 -0600)
Subject: Re: Stand-alone executables
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[Mark Evans wrote:]
> I just tried to show off my new VIB Icon program, and it bombed.
> [A compiled Windows Icon program couldn't find itself on another drive]
Mark,
Thanks for the problem report. If the -o option is used, wicont inserts
whatever pathname is given on the command line into the .exe file,
unfortunately hardwiring it to a particular path. This is a bug, and it
is exacerbated by the Wi program, which uses the -o option. Your
short term workarounds are either (1) recompile the program using wicont,
outside of Wi, or (2) run the patchstr.exe program:
patchstr foo.exe foo.exe
which strips the path information from the executable's self-identity.
I'll probably modify wicont so it doesn't include path information in the
identity string it writes; at that point executables will have to find
themselves on the PATH like everybody else.
Clint Jeffery, jeffery@cs.utsa.edu
Division of Computer Science, The University of Texas at San Antonio
Research http://www.cs.utsa.edu/research/plss.html