Why does CreateProcess give error 193 (%1 is not a valid Win32 app)

Question

The code below fails to start documents. I get error 193 (%1 is not a valid Win32 app). Starting executables work fine. The files are properly associated, they start the cor

Answer 1

Let me add an example here:

I'm trying to build Alluxio on windows platform and got the same issue, it's because the pom.xml contains below step:

      
        exec-maven-plugin
        org.codehaus.mojo
        false
        
          
            Check that there are no Windows line endings
            compile
            
              exec
            
            
              ${build.path}/style/check_no_windows_line_endings.sh
            
          
        
      

The .sh file is not executable on windows so the error throws.

Comment it out if you do want build Alluxio on windows.