POLINK: Access denied from tool

Trond · Post by **Trond** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 4:26 pm

When I run "c:\program files\purebasic\compilers\pbcompiler" "filenameintempdirfrom%TEMPFILEintoolwindow" /COMMENTED

I get an error saying polink: access denied. If I copy and paste the exact same command into a normal cmd.exe window it works as expected.

Help, please!

SFSxOI · Post by **SFSxOI** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 2:28 am

Trond, are you running Vista? If so try it in an admin command prompt and make sure you have full permissions to the dir.

Trond · Post by **Trond** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 2:55 pm

No, I'm running as an administrator user on XP. Besides, I don't even know which dir we're talking about.

SFSxOI · Post by **SFSxOI** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 2:57 pm

the 'purebasic\compilers' directory from your command above

Trond · Post by **Trond** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 3:14 pm

I have access to it. Also, the exact same command works from cmd.exe, I only get the error when I run the command from a batch file which is started as an IDE tool.

Post by **freak** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 4:21 pm

Try using the /exe switch to specify a target exe. Even with /commented, there is still an executable generated.
The default executable name is "PureBasic.exe", so imagine what happens if you run that from the PB directory while the IDE runs

Trond · Post by **Trond** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 5:58 pm

Thanks freak, that solved it. Is there a good reason for generating an exe when you specify /COMMENTED? After all, one of the purposes of this switch is that the asm file can be modified and then reassembled. And if it needs to be modified to work correctly, why create an exe? In some cases it may not even work.