[Geany] Build on Windows

Tim Tassonis timtas at xxxxx
Fri Nov 2 13:14:52 UTC 2007


Enrico Tröger wrote:
> On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:57:59 +0100, Tim Tassonis <timtas at cubic.ch>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Nick, Enrico
>>
>>
>>> At the moment the command line is just split up on every space, so 
>>> filenames with spaces won't work (although paths will). The quotes 
>>> become part of the filename. A workaround is to remove the quotes
>>> from the compile & build commands for the filetype you want to use.
>>> But of course the code could/should be improved to support quotes.
>> Well, I can well live with that restriction. I won't repeat on this
>> list how I call people putting blanks in source file names...
> I do ;-), spaces in filenames(as well as other non-Ascii characters) are
> one of the worst improvements ever.
> 
> Btw, if you are testing the code, I just committed some exit code
> detection for Windows. I have no idea whether it works reliable but a
> few tests seemed to be good.

Seems to work perfectly! Both make and compile now report "Compilation 
failed" when I get an error and "successful" when it is.

The only difference to unix I now see is the missing automatic error 
line detection stuff, but this is already great!

Thanks a lot, geany truly rocks!

Tim




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