Running explorer.exe would launch the application which would never close since explorer just opens. That doesn't make much sense ad I reread it but hopefully you get what I mean. If you want to just test by starting Jenkins from the cmdline, just stop the service and try running.
Sent from my Windows Phone ------------------------------ From: Christoph Sent: 6/14/2012 7:38 AM To: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Jenkins executing build .bat with gui Hallo, thank you for the quick answer that sounds like the right answer however activating the interaction with desktop did not help. even if i just try to start explorer from within jenkins it hangs. by the way, how do i unistall jenkins completely, when installed as a service? so, when i start jenkins with "java -jar jenkins.war" it _should_ work even with gui frames without furtther configurations, is that correct? thanks chris On Thursday, June 14, 2012 3:41:13 PM UTC+2, Christoph wrote: > Hello, > > I have a problem with jenkins stable on win7, running as system > service, installed as described by the documentation. > I use CodeBlocks as IDE and it can be trigered by command line, so i > made a .bat file that builds my projekt using CodeBlocks command line > execution. > The .bat works exactly as intended when started by hand. > > The problem: > Jenkins hangs forever on the execution of the .bat file as soon as > there is a gui call. > > If i write other things before the Codeblocks line, it works to. like > "echo hello" or something. > Jenkins does that successfully. > But writing "explorer" into the .bat does not. Executing the same .bat > manually however, i get an explorer window from win7. > > How can I execute GUI frames from within jenkins? > I have to use the CodeBlocks ide, for compiling a huge projekt with > several builds using several compilers. > > Thanks > Chris
