Jlink/Warppacker

[bitter solstice]

<@&987246452180930620> please have a look, thanks.

[chrome salmon]

hey, does anyone know how to prevent the console window from opening in the jlink's bat file? (or in warp-packer's exe)?

A console window along with the GUI opens when I click the exe shortcut. I digged deeper and found a workaround. But that launches a console for 1 second, opens javaw then exits console.

I was wondering if there was a better solution to this.

Does anyone know how to circumvent this?

[lucid cobalt]

are you launching using the script generated by --module apple=a.b/c

if so, you can just edit that script directly to use javaw

other than that, no clue

[chrome salmon]

jlink produces a bat, and I pass it to warp-packer.

So I try to edit the bat file

I'm posting more details in a min.

wait huh

why did tjbot delete my msg with bat file.

Imma rename to txt then send it

[chrome salmon]

^^

[lucid cobalt]

so the 2nd one works or nah

start "" "%DIR%\javaw" %JLINK_VM_OPTIONS% -m ValorantNarrator/com.jprcoder.valnarratorgui.Main ^* && exit 0

[chrome salmon]

I made that lol, it does

but opens a console for ~1 second opens javaw then closes console.

but still you don't have the normal app experience you see a console quickly flash and then the app launches

[lucid cobalt]

thats annoying

there has to be a solution here, i just do not know it exactly

[chrome salmon]

i searched for it for so long but didn't find any solutions.

[lucid cobalt]

So

my hypothesis is that

Batch script launches -> Java launches -> Batch script exits

https://superuser.com/questions/140047/how-to-run-a-batch-file-without-launching-a-command-window

and that the answer here is going to lie in batch

somehow

[bitter solstice]

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[chrome salmon]

the vbs script does work, but it seems warp-packer only wants a bat.

[lucid cobalt]

recompile warp packer?

#[cfg(target_family = "windows")]
fn is_script(target: &Path) -> bool {
    const SCRIPT_EXTENSIONS: &[&str] = &["bat", "cmd"];
    SCRIPT_EXTENSIONS.contains(
        &target.extension()
            .unwrap_or_default()
            .to_string_lossy()
            .to_lowercase().as_str())
}

looks like you might be able to just add vbs to this list?

[chrome salmon]

idk how to.

I made it work tho

bat file launches vbs script file-> vbs script file silently launches the java bat file -> java bat file launches the java code
ah nvm launching vbs causes the console to launch for sub 1 second.

[chrome salmon]

also, I'm still getting some module errors. I guess I'll have to manually sort that one out.

I had to write opens ... to ... for some stuff.

doing it manually is the best way right?

[chrome salmon]

I'm setting up windows subsystem, cuz without it. it's just painful to work with building it.

I checked the rust code and it executes it by cmd.exe /c ...
so that'll work for vbs

I just need to get it recompiled

[chrome salmon]

it works but still launches a console

i tried to replace cmd /c with wscript but still launches console for like 5 seconds.

#[cfg(target_family = "windows")]
fn do_execute(target: &Path, args: &[String]) -> io::Result<i32> {
    let target_str = target.as_os_str().to_str().unwrap();

    if is_script(target) {
        let mut cmd_args = Vec::with_capacity(args.len() + 2);
        cmd_args.push("/c".to_string());
        cmd_args.push(target_str.to_string());
        cmd_args.extend_from_slice(&args);
        
        Ok(Command::new("cmd")
        .args(cmd_args)
        .stdin(Stdio::inherit())
        .stdout(Stdio::inherit())
        .stderr(Stdio::inherit())
        .spawn()?
        .wait()?
        .code().unwrap_or(1))
    } else {
        Ok(Command::new(target)
            .args(args)
            .stdin(Stdio::inherit())
            .stdout(Stdio::inherit())
            .stderr(Stdio::inherit())
            .spawn()?
            .wait()?
            .code().unwrap_or(1))
    }
}

warp-packer basically launches cmd /c target_str then additional args passed from cmdline.

it works but it launches cmdline for 1 sec then opens the app.

basically that.

[chrome salmon]

I guess it's maybe cuz it launches cmd /c 2 times

one time the warp-packer launches the vbs script and then the vbs launches the bat