bug in loading files from temacs command line

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