Error starting 8.3 snapshot (windows)

[asgillett]

Hi

There are a couple of small errors in the windows start script in SmartClient_SNAPSHOT_v83d_2012-03-26_Pro.

Line 73 of smartclientSDK/WEB-INF/bin/embeddedTomcat.bat is missing the first character, i:

f %JAVA_IN_PATH% == 1 (

Line 99 does not put the %JAVA_HOME% in quotes which leads to this message when I run it:

D:\SmartClient_SNAPSHOT_v83d_2012-03-26\smartclientSDK>start_embedded_server.bat


Using user-defined JAVA_HOME: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.6.0_26"

\Java\jdk1.6.0_26\bin\java was unexpected at this time.

[Isomorphic]

Looks like we added some .bat syntax which is Windows 7 specific. This has been corrected, can you grab the next nightly of 8.3d and confirm?

[asgillett]

Hi,

Just tried with SmartClient_SNAPSHOT_v83d_2012-04-01 and it still fails.

I am using Windows 7 (64 bit).

The problem is line 99 which still reads:

if not "%JAVA_HOME%" == "" set JAVA=%JAVA_HOME%\bin\java

but should read something like:

if not "%JAVA_HOME%" == "" set JAVA="%JAVA_HOME%\bin\java"

[Isomorphic]

We're checking it out...it's probably the parens, not the whitespace. Your suggestion is a good one, but appears to cause problems in WinXP.

[Isomorphic]

As of last night's nightly, this problem should be fixed. However, be aware that it still afflicts setups that specify an explicit JAVA_HOME environment variable that points to a directory containing special chars like the parens in your "Program Files (x86)".

If you're relying on the auto-detection, however, then you should be fine.

[Isomorphic]

It turns out that even an explicitly set JAVA_HOME with special chars now works. Please let us know if you still see any problems. Thanks.