Re: gspawn-win32-helper

"Bill Nalen" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.gimp.windows.devel
Message-ID <OF1A458AB0.2118095D-ON85256CB4.005559D4-85256CB4.00557255@towers.com>
Alex wrote:
>There is a problem with launching programs in win32 with 
g_spawn_command_line_async(). I have no >trouble running something like 
"'c:\\windows\\sol.exe'", but if the path contains spaces, like, 
>"'c:\\program files\\internet explorer\\iexplore.exe'", it says "Failed 
to execute child process: no >such file or directory".
>The single quotes I enclosed the paths in come from glib documentation, 
and the error persists if I >remove them.
>Note, gspawn-win32-helper.exe is in my path.

I had the same problem a while back.  If you look through the code you 
will find that the command line is being parsed.  You can change it to 
c:/progra~1/intern~1/iexplore.exe and it will work

Bill
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