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Bug 322918

Summary:	eclipse.exe can't find its shared library if the length of shared library path exceed 255 characters
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Equinox	Reporter:	Meng Xin Zhu <kane.zhu>
Component:	Launcher	Assignee:	Project Inbox <equinox.launcher-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	minor
Priority:	P3	CC:	kane.mx, remy.suen, tjwatson
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
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Description Meng Xin Zhu

2010-08-17 11:52:09 EDT

Build Identifier: eclipse 3.6

Java does well to support long path name since 1.5. After jvm is started, java process can load the plugins/classes whose path length exceed 255 characters.
But eclipse.exe doesn't support long path well, it would fail to find its share library.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create long depth directories, such as c:\blab\...\blabla
2. unzip the eclipse SDK to the long depth folder
3. make sure the length of <inst>\plugins\org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.win32.win32.x86_1.1.0.v20100503\eclipse_1307.dll more than 255 characters
4. launch eclipse.exe
5. get an error dialog that indicates the companion shared library can't be found

Comment 1 Meng Xin Zhu

2012-02-01 22:18:45 EST


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 240027 ***