Re: bug in loading files from temacs command line

what do you mean unix-style filenames? do they just have slashes, or cygwin mount points? the latter certainly won't work under mingw32.

Andrew Begel wrote: > > Under Win2k, I compiled a just-checked-out Xemacs 21.2 under mingw32 > (./configure i586-pc-mingw32). After making a few adjustments to > make_arg_list_1 in emacs.c to define Qdll_filename_encoding to be Qnative, > and then commenting out the extra definition of getloadavg in nt.c, Xemacs > actually compiles. > > Unfortunately, temacs won't load files with unix-style filenames, so the > build process fails. Temacs wants windows-style filenames only. I'm running > this all from bash under cygwin 1.1.2. This feels like a bug, somewhere in > the code that parses the command line arguments, to me. > > I added the Qdll_filename_encoding declaration (which wasn't in the code and > caused it to fail to compile). > > Lisp_Object Qdll_filename_encoding; > > static Lisp_Object > make_arg_list_1 (int argc, Extbyte **argv, int skip_args) > { > Lisp_Object result = Qnil; > REGISTER int i; > Qdll_filename_encoding = Qnative; > > for (i = argc - 1; i >= 0; i--) > { > if (i == 0 || i > skip_args) > { > #ifdef WIN32_NATIVE > if (i == 0) > { > /* Do not trust to what crt0 has stuffed into argv[0] */ > char full_exe_path[MAX_PATH]; > Lisp_Object fullpath; > > GetModuleFileName (NULL, full_exe_path, MAX_PATH); > fullpath = build_ext_string (full_exe_path, Qmswindows_tstr); > result = Fcons (fullpath, result); > #if defined(HAVE_SHLIB) > { > Extbyte *fullpathext; > > LISP_STRING_TO_EXTERNAL (fullpath, fullpathext, > Qdll_filename_encoding); > (void) dll_init (fullpathext); > } > #endif > } > else > #endif > result = Fcons (build_ext_string (argv[i], > Qcommand_argument_encoding), > result); > } > } > return result; > } > > I think that last build_ext_string perhaps might be converting the pathnames > if it see's em, but it's not working... > > andrew