Need workaround for post-build event bug

#1 08-06-2008, 04:30 PM

If I put two lines into post-build events I expect them to be executed one
after another.

But that isn't what happens. Instead, it looks like the whole text of the
list box is passed to the command processor as a single command, embedded
CR/LFs and all, which then of course fails. Am I wrong to expect it to
execute the events line-by-line instead of all at once?

I can put the lines in a batch file, of course, but that seems to defeat the
object...

--
Paul Keating
The Hague

#2 08-06-2008, 08:55 PM

Paul Keating wrote:
> If I put two lines into post-build events I expect them to be executed one
> after another.
>
> But that isn't what happens. Instead, it looks like the whole text of the
> list box is passed to the command processor as a single command, embedded
> CR/LFs and all, which then of course fails. Am I wrong to expect it to
> execute the events line-by-line instead of all at once?
>
> I can put the lines in a batch file, of course, but that seems to defeat the
> object...

Only if the object is to execute multiple commands. If the object is to
execute one command, then it seems to be working perfectly, except that
you're giving it a nonsense command.

Your subject line says you want a workaround. Your message body says you
already have one.

I don't know how Delphi invokes the post-build commands. If it uses
cmd.exe, then you might try separating your commands with "&&" as you
would if you wanted to invoke them both at the command prompt.

--
Rob

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