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Nick Wellnhofer resolved CLOWNFISH-100.
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Resolution: Fixed
> Support building with MSYS make
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> Key: CLOWNFISH-100
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOWNFISH-100
> Project: Apache Lucy-Clownfish
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Charmonizer
> Reporter: Nick Wellnhofer
> Priority: Minor
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> Somewhat ironically, we still can't build the C bindings under MSYS and
> MSYS2, the Unix-like shells for MinGW, using the make utilities they provide.
> This is because Charmonizer invokes shell commands via C's {{system}}
> function which always delegates to {{cmd.exe}} under MinGW, whether under
> MSYS or not. As a result, backslashes are used as directory separators. This
> causes problems when commands from the generated Makefile are executed by the
> MSYS shell. Building with {{mingw32-make}} works, though.
> That's what you get when writing a build system based on C instead of a
> command shell!
> One solution is to keep using {{cmd.exe}} and convert backslashes to forward
> slashes before writing them to the Makefile. But doing this manually in
> charmonizer.main is extremely cumbersome and I'm not sure whether this could
> be automated reliably.
> I think a better solution is to detect whether we're running in a (mostly)
> POSIX-compatible environment under Windows and execute POSIX commands via
> {{sh.exe}} (make {{cmd.exe}} call {{sh.exe}} to be precise).
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