Re: Windows support

[James Mansion]

On Tue, 10 May 2011 00:02:05 +0100, Valeriy E. Ushakov <address@hidden>  
wrote:

> I don't see why system(3) would suddenly stop working.

That call itself works OK.

> > What was most upsetting to me really was how hard it was to see
> > where and how the command line to execute was being built.
>
> Why do you need to know how the argument to system() is built internally?

Because the command to execute is wrapped in a pipeline of commands
that are *NIX-specific.  The prooblem is wrapping around the supplied
text in 'pipe'.

If I do pipe {"dir"} the command as built is:

        cat louti1 | dir | prg2lout -r -lC -o lout1 -elout.err

Call me old-fashioned, but I thought it should be straightforward to fix
that with an ifdef that would work on Windows and offer a contribution.

But it did not prove straightforward to work backwards from FilterExecute,
which (obviously) is in z40.c.

If someone could enlighten me about how/where the command is formed, I'd
be really grateful.

> > I can't really find a polite way to describe the structure of it -
> > its like the output from a funky source to source translator.
>
> If you couldn't find one, perhaps, you should have kept your opinion
> to yourself?

Are YOU going to say that is a maintainable style?

Does anyone here have a good understanding of hacking on lout core
other than Dr Kingston?

James