Re: [cdt-dev] One of the reasons why wndows support is not so great.

[15 knots <fifteenknots505@xxxxxxxxx>]

Did you try to use forward slashes (Unix path separators)? AFAIK, the
windows filesystem functions accept forward slashes, too.
Well cmd.exe is a different thing:-)

Am Do., 20. Feb. 2020 um 15:20 Uhr schrieb Jan Baeyens <jan@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> Hi all
>
> I have created a bug report https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=560330 that creates some unlikely to happen and  hard to understand behaviour that is most likely to happen on windows os.
>
> When working with environment variables \ is used to avoid macro expansion.
>
> Because of that something like
>
> ${ProjDirPath}\${ConfigName}
> will not expand ConfigName
> also
> ${ProjDirPath}${DirectoryDelimiter}${ConfigName}
> will not expand correctly on windows because DirectoryDelimiter will expand to \ before ConfigName is handled.
>
> Though I think the code could be improved so that at least ${ProjDirPath}${DirectoryDelimiter}${ConfigName} works properly the real issue is that the use of \ as escape key is a bad choice in windows environment variables.
>
> As to the impact of (not) changing the escape key. I fear the key is at least used by CDT gnu managed build. But more importantly, replacing \ by another key will cause compatibility issues. Keeping it will mean: "remaining with occasional weird windows problems"
>
> Jantje
>
> PS Don't get me wrong, I do not think this is a urgent issue. It is however important to understand windows specific issues.
> I worked around it by doing the expansion myself
>         //work around needed because of https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=560330
>         //it should have been
>         //A.BUILD.PATH={ProjDirPath}{DirectoryDelimiter}{ConfigName}
>         // in pre_processing_platform_default.txt
>         String buildPath=confDesc.getProjectDescription().getProject().getLocation().append(confDesc.getName()).toOSString();
>         setBuildEnvironmentVariable(contribEnv, confDesc, "A.BUILD.PATH", buildPath);
>         //end of workaround
>
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