Greetings, Andy Hall! > This is a puzzle that I have not been able to sort out despite trying all > sorts of variations. Basically, I maintain a bunch of Crystal Reports based > on Crystal reports XI R2. Sorry, I have no choice there. > I have this installed and running on a Widows 10 machine. How I did that is > another story. > Recently I was asked what it would take to internationalize these reports. > Fortunately, CR has a mechanism that allows you to define your own functions > that can be used in reports which allow you to access properties files > containing the localized entities just as you would for a > normal Java app. All well and good.
> So I set about trying to get this to work. The plugin to CR XI R2, is not > well integrated with the base system and a bit of not so nice manual > configuration is necessary. > You have to follow this to the letter, but that is not sufficient. > Out of the box I could not get it to work. So to debug what was going on I > wrote a simple bash script to try to get it to work. > Lo and behold this simple script works: > #!/bin/bash > echo " " > echo "CLASSPATH = $CLASSPATH" > echo " " > #JAVA_HOME=C":\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.6.0_45" > echo "JAVA_HOME = $JAVA_HOME" > echo " " > echo "PATH = $PATH" > cd "/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/Business Objects/Crystal Reports 11.5" > java -version > crw32.exe > Notice that this seem to do nothing but display some key variables and the > run CR in its installation directory, just as the normal shortcut does. > It launches CR which finds the plugin and loads it. > Now I have a need to do the same outside of the Cygwin environment, so I > wrote a simple equivalent .cmd file: > @Echo off > :: Display CLASSPATH > set CLASSPATH echo %CLASSPATH% > :: Set and display JAVA_HOME > ::set JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.6.0_45 > set JAVA_HOME echo %JAVA_HOME% > :: Add 32-bit JDK to PATH and display > ::set PATH=%JAVA_HOME%\bin;%PATH% > set PATH Just start Java from %ProgramData%\Oracle\Java\javapath\java.exe In truth, it IS ALREADY in your %PATH%, if you didn't removed it. > pushd C:\Program Files (x86)\Business Objects\Crystal Reports 11.5 CD /D "C:\Program Files (x86)\Business Objects\Crystal Reports 11.5" > java.exe -version > crw32.exe > popd > If I run this from a bash command prompt it works as well. It also works > if I launch cmd from bash and then run the cmd > file. That makes sense. > But here is the puzzle, If I simply click on the runCR.cmd file, say from > the file explorer, CR launches but does not find the plugin. > The same happens if I launch a Windows cmd window and run the cmd file > outside of Cygwin. Then the environment is different. "set > file" in both CMD prompts and diff the output. > So the question is: What could possibly be the difference between the > Cygwin environment and the Windows cmd environment that makes this work in > one and not the other? > I have examined the PATH used in the Cygwin environment and set the PATH in > the Windows environment to be identical. No change. It may be some other environment variable. > I thought it might have to do with whether or not a 32-bit or 64-bit JVM is > configured in the path, but that does not seem to make a difference. > It fails if the JVM in the path is 32-bit or 64-bit probably because CR > really gets its JVM from a registry setting. > I am at a loss, Does anybody have an idea? > BTW, I would have expected the reverse to be the case: works in Windows but > not Cygwin. If I were you, I'd remove all Java versions and then install only one, and see if it works or not. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Sunday, March 6, 2016 00:31:40 Sorry for my terrible english...
