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Forward command line arguments for window launchers #1572

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Pass arguments in windows launcher template
firai Apr 25, 2025
85d0e85
Remove extra space from argument
firai Apr 25, 2025
eeda305
Remove space from concat rather than from pointer offset
firai Apr 25, 2025
164cf60
Wrap everything in outer quotes if arguments are passed
firai Apr 25, 2025
4a624c6
More reliable way to deal with whitespace
firai Apr 26, 2025
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29 changes: 27 additions & 2 deletions portable/launchers_src/launcher_template_WINDOWS.cpp
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Expand Up @@ -19,6 +19,26 @@ int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE /*hInstance*/, HINSTANCE /*hPrevInstance*/, LPSTR /
std::wstring exeDir = exePath;
exeDir = exeDir.substr(0, exeDir.find_last_of(L"\\/"));

// Get command line string and extract arguments
LPWSTR commandLine = GetCommandLineW();
std::wstring args;
// If executable path is double quoted, skip the entire quoted section
if (commandLine[0] == L'"') {
LPWSTR closingQuote = wcschr(commandLine + 1, L'"');
if (closingQuote) {
args = closingQuote + 1;
}
// For non-quoted path, skip to character after first space if it exists
} else {
LPWSTR spacePos = wcschr(commandLine, L' ');
if (spacePos) {
args = spacePos + 1;
}
}
// Strip leading whitespace
size_t args_start = args.find_first_not_of(L" ");
args = (args_start != std::wstring::npos) ? args.substr(args_start) : L"";

// Define the path to the "scripts" directory
std::wstring scriptsDir = exeDir + L"\\scripts";

Expand All @@ -37,8 +57,13 @@ int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE /*hInstance*/, HINSTANCE /*hPrevInstance*/, LPSTR /
return 1;
}

// Define the command to run
std::wstring target = L"cmd.exe /c \"" LAUNCH_TARGET L"\"";
// Define the command to run and append arguments if present
std::wstring target;
if (!args.empty()) {
target = L"cmd.exe /c \"\"" LAUNCH_TARGET L"\" " + args + L"\"";
} else {
target = L"cmd.exe /c \"" LAUNCH_TARGET L"\"";
}

// Configure the process startup info
STARTUPINFO si = { sizeof(si) };
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