Hi Monks,

Here I am, again with an another problem. I'm using PAR pp utility to pack my script with additional source directories (e.g. Java directory).

I was able to pack C:/Java directory within my packaged standalone TCExecutor.exe file. When I extract my TCExecutor.exe using 7zip, I see below directory structure- 

C:\Perl\site\bin\TCExecutor>dir
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is 9AA5-39F7
 Directory of C:\Perl\site\bin\TCExecutor
10/18/2013  12:40 PM    <DIR>          .
10/18/2013  12:40 PM    <DIR>          ..
10/18/2013  12:40 PM    <DIR>          Java
10/18/2013  12:40 PM    <DIR>          lib
10/18/2013  12:35 PM            72,281 MANIFEST
10/18/2013  12:35 PM               221 META.yml
10/18/2013  12:40 PM    <DIR>          script
10/17/2013  08:24 PM    <DIR>          shlib
               2 File(s)         72,502 bytes
               6 Dir(s)  26,444,361,728 bytes free

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This shows Java directory was packaged properly within TCExecutor.exe. I confirmed it by checking java.exe -version inside Java directory.

Problem begins when I run TCExecutor.exe. Actually, I called Java/bin/java.exe file inside TCExecutor.pl script using a system command as mentioned below- 

system("..\\Java\\bin\\java.exe -jar Framework-1.0.1-tests.jar $testng
+File")

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and I get following error: ""..\Java\java.exe" failed to start: "The system cannot find the path specified..."

To breakdown this problem, I referred some documents related to PAR pp utility (e.g. PAR::Tutorial) and found that during execution, TCExecutor.exe is extracted in $ENV{PAR_TEMP} directory. This directory usually reside in user TEMP directory. I referred this directory and found Java directory is not extracted here. That is why my TCExecutor.exe is not able to find ..\\Java\\bin\\java.exe path. (this is what I assume, correct me if I'm wrong)

Below are the files available in $ENV{PAR_TEMP} directory - 

C:\Users\ADMINI~1\AppData\Local\Temp\1\par-41646d696e6973747261746f72\
+cache-c683e77b9a89c807d6eafeca82ff209af7bf275f>dir
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is 9AA5-39F7
 Directory of C:\Users\ADMINI~1\AppData\Local\Temp\1\par-41646d696e697
+3747261746f72\cache-c683e77b9a89c807d6eafeca82ff209af7bf275f
10/18/2013  12:43 PM    <DIR>          .
10/18/2013  12:43 PM    <DIR>          ..
10/18/2013  12:43 PM            24,701 000c959d.dll
10/18/2013  12:42 PM            20,589 06c2d1e1.dll
10/18/2013  12:43 PM            28,776 0e6a4829.dll
10/18/2013  12:43 PM            32,878 16fbc221.dll
10/18/2013  12:42 PM            86,146 2026b6ac.dll
10/18/2013  12:43 PM            36,992 34cee907.dll
10/18/2013  12:43 PM            41,085 365ea864.dll
10/18/2013  12:42 PM            24,679 3ca67bd9.dll
10/18/2013  12:42 PM            20,590 3d6bfe4c.dll
10/18/2013  12:43 PM            82,048 49177082.dll
10/18/2013  12:42 PM            41,067 4b789922.dll
10/18/2013  12:43 PM            24,701 4f475e36.dll
10/18/2013  12:43 PM            82,033 615a54ca.dll
10/18/2013  12:43 PM            28,792 663e11bb.dll
10/18/2013  12:43 PM            24,681 6bc82cc9.dll
10/18/2013  12:43 PM            53,348 7b57d138.dll
10/18/2013  12:42 PM            24,698 9da5a0f2.dll
10/18/2013  12:43 PM           118,918 a12442c3.dll
10/18/2013  12:43 PM            31,555 c5fefe10.dll
10/18/2013  12:43 PM            20,593 d3979a66.dll
10/18/2013  12:42 PM            24,676 d43dc9e9.dll
10/18/2013  12:43 PM            57,463 d56fc451.dll
10/18/2013  12:43 PM         1,056,877 eb46b129.dll
10/18/2013  12:42 PM            24,670 f38abea4.dll
10/18/2013  12:43 PM           184,414 fca48d10.dll
10/18/2013  12:42 PM            20,603 feaf2452.dll
10/18/2013  12:42 PM         1,339,479 perl516.dll
10/18/2013  12:42 PM            53,248 TCExecutor.exe
              28 File(s)      3,610,300 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  26,444,226,560 bytes free

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Please let me know your suggestions on how can I access Java/bin/java.exe file and trigger another child process using system call. What would be the root cause for this problem? OR if there are any other ways to access added directories using pp -a option.

Looking for your suggestions..

In reply to [PAR] Cannot Access extra files added within packaged executable by tarunmudgal4u

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