[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Getting clueless win32 users working on a project in arch

[Anand Kumria]

On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 23:47:18 +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:

> 
> John's stuff is MinGW not Cygwin. This is actually what I tried last time
> (3-4 months ago), but from talking to Rob Collins today, this problem
> still exists. There is no easy solution which is why it hasn't been fixed
> yet.
> 
> The problem is file paths like this:
> 
> {arch}/++pristine-trees/unlocked/libsndfile/libsndfile--mdev/libsndfile--mdev--1.0/address@hidden/libsndfile--mdev--1.0--patch-380/{arch}/libsndfile/libsndfile--devel/libsndfile--devel--1.0/address@hidden/patch-log/patch-1
> 
> under the {arch} directory. Paths of this length are not handled correctly
> by windows of any flavour.

These paths are handled just fine; however they need to be prefixed with
\\?\ prior to submission to the Win32 API

See:

<URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/base/createfile.asp>

and the the commentry for lpFileName.
 
> Yes, windows is fucked.

Preach it, brother.

Anand