On 2017-04-12 22:55, Ross Berteig wrote:
On 4/12/2017 1:10 PM, Thomas wrote:
I might try MinGW as soon as I figured out how to buld Fossil with
MinGW/Cygwin. ;-)
I've been looking at the wildcard globbing from command line issue, and
the bottom line is that out of the box MinGW and MSVC both defer to the
Microsoft C Runtime Library to get argv[] initialized. There is a
mechanism available at link time to tell it not to glob before main() is
entered, but its complicated. No one is happy. Lots of shouting on
mailing lists. More yak shaving and bike shedding. Also, sadly, no
changes. It doesn't help that MS has been changing what they do in edge
cases from release to release, making it even harder to figure out what
to do to build code that does what you assume you wanted.
I believe there's got to be a balance between effort and outcome.
No one needs a washing machine if there's any other way of getting clean
clothes, because that's what's required at the end of the day. The
washing machine is just a tool. My preference would be to buy a magic
wand that washes my socks. ;-)
I think the "*," solution is totally ok, as long as it's promoted in the
documentation.
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