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hasan
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 Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2005 11:31 am Post subject: bug with resolving pathes |
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This is on windows xp.
I'm not sure what exactly is the problem, but if I call build and supply it the path of the .d file with slashes this way / (not \) and an object directory, something wrong happens:
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E:\Temp>dir
Volume in drive E is Storage
Volume Serial Number is 405C-4670
Directory of E:\Temp
09/02/2005 12:33 PM <DIR> .
09/02/2005 12:33 PM <DIR> ..
09/02/2005 12:33 PM <DIR> bin
09/02/2005 12:30 PM 37 test.d
1 File(s) 37 bytes
3 Dir(s) 6,084,481,024 bytes free
E:\Temp>build e:/temp/test.d -odbin
Error: bin\/temp/test.def: The system cannot find the path specified.
E:\Temp>dmd e:/temp/test.d -odbin
E:\dmd\dmd\bin\..\..\dm\bin\link.exe bin\test,,,user32+kernel32/noi;
E:\Temp>
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for some reason, build tries to look for bin\/temp/test.def
dmd doesn't seem to have this problem
the problem doesn't occur when I call build this way:
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E:\Temp>build e:\temp\test.d -odbin
E:\dmd\dmd\bin\..\..\dm\bin\link.exe bin\test,test.exe,,user32+kernel32,bin\test
.def/noi;
E:\Temp>
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In short, if I supply the path like this:
e:/temp/test.d
The bug occurs, but if I supply it like this:
e:\temp\test.d
It works fine.
Note that dmd works find with e:/temp/test.d |
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AgentOrange
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| Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2005 1:27 pm Post subject: |
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try 'build test.d -I..'
its just one of the quirks of build, i still think its nicer than writing a makefile every time |
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hasan
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| Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2005 1:39 pm Post subject: |
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actually I can just
>build test.d
I'm reporting a bug, not complaining about something not working. |
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Derek Parnell
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| Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2005 4:45 pm Post subject: |
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| hasan wrote: | actually I can just
>build test.d
I'm reporting a bug, not complaining about something not working. |
Why is it a bug? The path separator character for Windows is the "\" character. The "/" is the character for Unix. In Windows applications, the "/" is often used as a lead-in character for command line arguments.
For example, open a DOS console window and type in ...
You get a listing of the root folder for the current drive. Now try this ...
You get an error message "Invalid switch"
A bug is where the program behaviour doesn't conform to the specification. There is no specification that says I need to treat both "/" and "\" as path separators in the Windows environment.
However, as some Windows programs do treat both as valid delimiters, I could enhance Build to do the same. However, I can't treat "\" as a path separator in Unix because that character is a valid file name character in Unix.
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hasan
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| Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2005 11:52 pm Post subject: |
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Well, I haven't read any windows spec (is there one?), but dmd handles it well, so it's natural for one to assume that build does too.
Windows explorer itself handles it.
Infact, if you type "file:///" in windows explorer, the drop down list will contain a list of pahtes that use the / seperator.
I'm not trying to be picky, but maybe some people will try to write tools that use the build tool, and maybe for some reason or another, these tools will supply path names with / seperators on windows machines. (which btw is exactly what happened to me)
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However, as some Windows programs do treat both as valid delimiters, I could enhance Build to do the same.
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Well, there you go. |
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Derek Parnell
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| Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2005 3:51 am Post subject: |
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| hasan wrote: |
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However, as some Windows programs do treat both as valid delimiters, I could enhance Build to do the same.
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Well, there you go. |
Your wish is my command, sir.
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hasan
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| Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 9:58 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you!  |
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