start.exe | Launch an EXE file using DOSBox Mono or Wine

After installing the sphinx Python package, you have two options to execute it,

• Execute sphinx-build.exe
• Or execute python -m sphinx

So before you learn exactly what deleted the former, you can try to use the latter as an alternative way.

Since start command is built in, to run it outside of cmd, including python scripts, we can use cmd /c start script.py. This works for me.

When calling sprintf_s(), %s expects a char* string, but you are giving it a wchar* string instead. Also, you are passing in the wrong value for the second parameter of sprintf_s() and swprintf_s().

You really should not be using any char data in this code at all, especially since you are just converting it to wchar anyway, so you should use all wchar strings only. Change the lpszPathLink parameter to LPCWSTR, change the sp buffer to WCHAR[], and change sprintf_s() to swprintf_s().

Also, since all of the values you are using for the link are WCHAR anyway, you should use IShellLinkW directly instead of the TCHAR-based IShellLink.

Also, CreateLink() requires CoInitialize/Ex() to have been called beforehand, but it is NOT being called in this code.

Try this instead:

You seem to use the existence of the mutex as the criterion to decide whether the process already runs and not who owns the mutex. ReleaseMutex is used to give up ownership of a mutex if you currently own it. But your code doesn't actually retrieve ownership of the mutex anywhere.

I see these ways towards solving your problem:

1. Destroy mutex instead of trying to release it.

Instead of using ReleaseMutex, use CloseHandle to destroy the mutex. If you are the only one holding a handle to the mutex, it will be gone afterwards.

For this purpose, remember the original handle returned by CreateMutex and don't open the mutex a second time.

1. Use mutexes as intended

Instead of using the mere existing of the mutex, try to obtain ownership by calling WaitForSingleObject on it. You can then release it by calling ReleaseMutex.

1. External program should wait (my preferred method)

Have the external program wait until the old instance of the application was fully terminated before trying to start a new instance.

You have to clear the status after you set it:

When you convert a python script to .exe you take away the ability to dynamically load python files (plus it can cause silent errors).

In general if you want to save information permanently then you should use any type of file (for example .txt) but it is better to use a pre-established format (such as .ini, .yaml, .csv, etc) and use a library that read safely such as ConfigParser, QSettings, etc.

On the other hand you should not use getcwd() but you should obtain the information dynamically as the answers to this question suggest.

Prior to make html you should do the reading the apidoc comments from your code and creating .rst files. You should run something like this from your project root folder:

As Wasif Hasan already commented, you can make use of the Group-Object for this.