[Dev] Chandler Windows startup scripts: RunChandler and RunPython

[Mike Taylor]

Ack!  I forgot to mention that I figured this out with a lot of help 
from John (who suggested the possibility and patiently listened to my 
babbling when I was talking it over with him) and Andi (who verified 
that it wasn't an issue with bdb which was my first thought.)

On Mar 8, 2006, at 2:10 PM, Mike Taylor wrote:

> While trying to get the quick build tinderboxes to run the Functional 
> Tests I have located a problem with the RunChandler.bat and 
> RunPython.bat startup scripts.
>
> On Windows we have to tell the OS that we have a custom dll search 
> path so that Windows will locate our dll's as they are not in any of 
> the "normal" places the OS looks for them by default.  This is done 
> for us by chandler.exe and chandlerDebug.exe - a small program that 
> sets the environment up, calls the OS API to set the search path and 
> then calls python(_d).
>
> The problem is that the RunChandler.bat calls the RunPython.bat and 
> passes it the parameters to run Chandler.py.  RunPython.bat then calls 
> python.exe or python_d.exe and passes along those parameters.
>
> None of the Run*.bat steps involves the Chandler Launcher so that 
> means the search path may not be set correctly.
>
> Right now I will be modifying RunChandler.bat to use the launcher as 
> that will fix my tinderbox issue.  After that I need to research the 
> RunPython issue a bit and then I'll post a proposal here for 
> discussion.
>
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