Hi,

we used to start Fiji from within our LA Software from the command line. This worked fine, but recently something within Fiji changed.
Now it requires the ".exe" extension somehow.  Since I am not the expert, I askes one of our programmers, and here is what he answered: (I hope that helps)


 The problem seems to be that you can start Fiji without using the .exe extension, however, you then can't use the name provided by argv[0] in functions like GetShortPathName since the file fiji-win32 actually doesn't exist.
 
new_argv[0] = dos_path(new_argv[0]);
 
for (i = 0; i < j; i++)
    new_argv[i] = quote_win32(new_argv[i]);
    execve(new_argv[0], (char * const *)new_argv, NULL);
 
[...]
 
static char *dos_path(const char *path)
{
    int size = GetShortPathName(path, NULL, 0);
    char *buffer = (char *)xmalloc(size);
    GetShortPathName(path, buffer, size);
    return buffer;
}
 
 
 
Here is a small test case to demonstrate the problem:
 
fiji1.cpp:
 
#include <Windows.h>
 
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
    int size = GetShortPathName(argv[0], NULL, 0);
    char *buffer = (char *)calloc(size, 1);
    GetShortPathName(argv[0], buffer, size);
 
    printf("GetShortPathName: %s GetLastError: 0x%08X\n", buffer, GetLastError());
}
 
 
$ fiji1.exe
GetShortPathName: fiji1.exe GetLastError: 0x00000000
 
$ fiji1
GetShortPathName: ²²²² GetLastError: 0x00000002