On 3/21/16 Mar 21 -3:01 PM, Jason Miller wrote: > Mingw translates command-line arguments that look like a path into > windows style pathnames if the DLL is present.
I'm wondering what happens if you have a Lisp running under Mingw. Might the environment variables that the Lisp sees be populated with pathnames that aren't good Windows PNs? > On 12:43 Mon 21 Mar , Robert Goldman wrote: >> On 3/21/16 Mar 21 -10:47 AM, Stas Boukarev wrote: >>> Robert Goldman <rpgold...@sift.net> writes: >>> >>>> On 3/21/16 Mar 21 -9:34 AM, Stas Boukarev wrote: >>>>> I never liked the idea of cygwin, mingw (via msys2) seems to be >>>>> working pretty well for me. >>>> >>>> Any chance you could grab a copy of the git repo and run the tests on >>>> Windows? >>>> >>>> I'm relatively confident that everything works the same across lisp >>>> implementations on Windows now. The same tests fail for me everywhere. >>>> >>>> The tests failing, AFAICT, are mostly due to Cygwin environment bleeding >>>> into the environment used by the Lisp (which interacts with Windows >>>> through CMD.EXE). My guess is that these will fail in pretty much the >>>> same way under mingw, but I have never used mingw, so I can't really >>>> say. Does it have its own pathname syntax, the way cygwin does? (You >>>> can tell I don't use windows -- except for testing ASDF!). >>> Two tests fail: >>> test-run-program.script test-sysdef-asdf.script >>> >>> test-sysdef-asdf fails because sb-ext:run-program doesn't yet support >>> output redirection on windows. >>> >>> test-run-program because it can't find "echo" which turns out to be a >>> shell script with echo "$@", cmd.exe has trouble executing that. >>> Found some bsd echo.c, compiled and stuffed it instead of the shell >>> script, the test now passes. >>> >>> So, ASDF works as much as it can be expected to work. >>> >> >> I've got some additional failures: the tests that involve >> re-initializing the ASDF search paths. Somehow they grab up cygwin >> paths (for me /cygdrive/f/....), which of course doesn't work. >> >> I could fix those tests probably -- I use a special environment variable >> to load ASDF on Windows under Cygwin -- but that would be just fixing >> the test and leaving ASDF broken. ASDF simply doesn't reliably work >> under Cygwin because of the Cygwin paths. >> >> How does mingw do this stuff? Cygwin gives me /cygdrive/f/ instead of >> f:/, and that's what shows up in pwd.... >> >> thanks, >> r >> >> >>