Re: [platform] Sharing "platform" between two platform apps

Den onsdag 21 januari 2026 kl. 20:16, Neil C Smith <[email protected]> =
skrev:

> On Wed, 21 Jan 2026 at 17:58, Patrik Karlstr=C3=B6m [email protected] wrot=
e:
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> > Perhaps my most confusing subject so far... :)
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> > I plan to distribute a platform app within another platform app and wou=
ld like for them to share resources, primarily the "platform" dir in order =
to save space.
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> > At first I tried with a symlink on linux at it worked just fine but I w=
ant it also to work on windows.
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> > So then I tried editing nestedapp.clusters adding ../ before platform
> > It just resulted in
> > ../platform*/lib/nbexec: No such file or directory
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> > Then I found nbexec=3D`echo "$progdir"/../platform*/lib/nbexec` in the =
launcher script.
> > I guess I perhaps could patch that, but not the exe.
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> > Is it possible to do what I want?
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> Can they be at the same level? Or do you need the other application
> to be in a separate subfolder?
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> I used to ship a platform application that had two parts, with
> separate launchers in bin, separate cluster and conf files in etc, and
> different cluster sets for each.
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> Best wishes,
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> Neil
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I just thought it would clash somehow being on the same level so I did not =
test that.

It works perfectly with your suggestion, thank you!

/Patrik

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