I am trying to run a file called CoreServer.exe in background using cmd shell as mentioned here. When I specify the path of the server, it tells me,
'.' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
On the other hand if I remove shell: cmd it works fine. But in this case it runs using Poweshell and I don’t want that because running in Powershell is not what I want.
Here is my workflow file. I also have this in a public repo on GitHub here.
name: Test unit tests CI
on:
push:
branches: [ "main" ]
pull_request:
branches: [ "main" ]
jobs:
build:
runs-on: windows-2022
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v3
- name: setup Msbuild
uses: microsoft/setup-msbuild@v1.3.1
#try nc -v -N 127.0.0.1 3334
#curl http://localhost:3333 -I
#vstest.console.exe ./Pico/Medman/FluidTransferTests/bin/Release/net481/FluidTransferTests.dll
#Start CoreServer.exe in background
- name: Start CoreServer.exe in the background
shell: cmd
run: ./Debug/CoreServer.exe -c -s &
- name: Wait 7 seconds
run: sleep 7
- name: See status
run: netstat -ntp
To add more information, when I run this CoreServer.exe in a command prompt on my local it runs fine and shows the following,
>Solution :
The windows shell doesn’t handle linux style path separators. ./debug must be .\debug, that will remove the error.
- name: Start CoreServer.exe in the background
shell: cmd
run: .\Debug\CoreServer.exe -c -s &