Re: [Doxygen-users] doxywizard can't run PlantUML

[Christoph L. <chr...@li...>]

Am 01.07.2015 um 18:32 schrieb rkennerly:
> MikePelley wrote
>> I am trying to use the doxywizard with PlantUML.  PlantUML works fine by
>> itself.  But when the doxywizard gets to the step to invoke PlantUML, it
>> throws up a dialog saying "choose the program you want to use to open this
>> file: java.exe".  Why is it trying to "open" java.exe?  It should just run
>> it!  I'm on Windows 7 Professional, 64-bit.  Doxygen is 1.8.9.1 installed
>> from the binary distribution doxygen-1.8.9.1-setup.exe.
>>
>> Any help is appreciated!
> I found a work-around for this exact problem by side-stepping the "java.exe"
> shortcut that is installed by the java installer (java version "1.8.0_45")
> at "C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath".  Look at your "Path" environment
> variable in a command prompt window (type "path") and see if the directory
> for java includes symlink entries as it does on my system (Win7 64 bit).  If
> you look at "properties" for the shortcut called "java.exe" you can see
> where it points to the real executable:
>
> C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath>dir
>   Directory of C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath
> ...
> 07/01/2015  09:01 AM    <SYMLINK>      java.exe [C:\Program Files
> (x86)\Java\jre1.8.0_45\bin\java.exe]
>
> So, I wrote a short batch file to prepend the actual install directory of
> java to the front of my path that I can run before running doxygen (in the
> same Command Prompt window):

That's becoming a pain though as soon as the JRE is updated.

I had this issue, too; it appears that, as of recently, Windows refuses 
to execute symbolic links with an ".exe" extension. On the interwebs 
there are some hints that this change in behaviour was introduced with 
security update KB3039066 (see 
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3039066), and indeed selectively 
uninstalling that update fixed the problem for me. (Obviously you'll 
have to live with an unpatched potential security issue instead, so you 
may choose not to go that way.)