On Windows, Red added to the path, can't be run from another folder on cmd #543

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1. dockimbel commented on Sep 30, 2013

   

   dockimbel

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   Some other crashing case (and workaround):

   C:\Dev\Red\build>..\red 
   PROGRAM ERROR: Invalid encapsulated data. 
   
   C:\Dev\Red\build>..\red.exe 
   
   -=== Red Console alpha version ===- 
   (only ASCII input supported) 
   
   red>>
   
2. hostilefork commented on Sep 30, 2013

   

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   This appears to be an issue with the encapper not being able to gracefully handle cases where it is not invoked via a fully specified path.

   It should have been able to use system/options/boot to do this without error, but... Rebol 2 and its encapper are not open source. So unless it is hacked...or its requests to the filesystem hooked somehow... a simple workaround would be to invoke red through a batch file, which forces a fully specified path.

   To do that: rename red.exe to red-exe.exe, and in the same directory as that executable put a red.bat file containing the following line:

   "%~dp0red-exe.exe" %*
   

   Moving the exe out of the way means the batch file will be preferred. The quotes sanitize the path, which uses the cryptic %~dp0 to get the path (no close percent used, unlike envrionment variables). The %* is a construct for taking the individual arguments, e.g. %1 %2 ... %n.

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3. dockimbel commented on Sep 30, 2013

   

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   Thanks a lot @hostilefork.
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5. AJMansfield commented on Oct 25, 2015

   

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   I had this same issue when I was trying to get sublime text to use red as a build system on Ubuntu 15.04.
   My solution was similar; I created a shell script like this:

   #!/bin/bash
   red $@

   and called that instead.
6. cdokolas commented on Jul 28, 2017

   

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   For the Windows batch file, I'd add a @ in front, like this:

   @"%~dp0red-exe.exe" %*
   

   The way I've actually used it is by dropping the executable to my C:\Utils\ folder (it's in the PATH variable) and also creating a red.bat file there with @"%~dp0red-063.exe" %* in it (I kept the original filename to keep track of the version I'm using).

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