Re: [Chicken-users] windows shell problem

[Ivan Raikov]

Hi Felix,

   I think the problem is that \ in strings needs to be escaped,
otherwise the string below will include \h \c and \b escape sequences,
instead of the characters \ h c b. 

   -Ivan


"felix winkelmann" <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi!
>
> I'm trying to "fix" the mingw build and have encountered
> a problem that leaves me absolutely dumbfounded.
>
> I invoke csi and csc in chicken-install like this:
>
> "c:\home\chicken-trunk\bin\csi" ...<args> ...
>
> (Note the quotes around the pathname)
>
> This works fine in cmd.exe, but fails when using the
> system(3) function. The behaviour is absolutely incomprehensible
> to me, as passing arguments (with or without quoting) makes
> it sometimes work and sometimes not. Omitting the quotes
> around the program name seems to work, but I can't say
> why. There is also no documentation that I can find, which
> describes the quoting rules in the windows shell, or what
> system(3) is doing behind the scenes. This is mingw
> on a relatively old Win XP installation, using the cmd.exe
> shell.
>
> Please help. I'm going mad. The moment when I lose control
> and throw the whole windows build out of the window is
> coming near...