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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

What happens if you use the backslash space notation without the quotes?

2016-01-03 13:15 GMT+01:00 Bevan Weiss <bevan.weiss@xxxxxxxxx>:
> I did reduce it down so that it was just the windres.exe from the MSYS2
> package, and got the following result:
>
> BevanWeiss@BevanWeiss-PC MSYS /C/KiCad/KiCad-Winbuilder/test folder
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> $ /C/KiCad/KiCad-Winbuilder/msys64/mingw64/bin/windres.exe --version
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> GNU windres (GNU Binutils) 2.25.1
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> Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>
> This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
>
> the GNU General Public License version 3 or (at your option) any later
> version.
>
> This program has absolutely no warranty.
>
> BevanWeiss@BevanWeiss-PC MSYS /C/KiCad/KiCad-Winbuilder/test folder
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> $ /C/KiCad/KiCad-Winbuilder/msys64/mingw64/bin/windres.exe
> -I"/C/Kicad/KiCad-Winbuilder/test folder"
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> gcc: error: folder: No such file or directory
>
> C:\KiCad\KiCad-Winbuilder\msys64\mingw64\bin\windres.exe: preprocessing
> failed.
>
> BevanWeiss@BevanWeiss-PC MSYS /C/KiCad/KiCad-Winbuilder/test folder
>
> $ /C/KiCad/KiCad-Winbuilder/msys64/mingw64/bin/windres.exe
> -I"/C/Kicad/KiCad-Winbuilder/test\ folder"
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> gcc: error: folder: No such file or directory
>
> C:\KiCad\KiCad-Winbuilder\msys64\mingw64\bin\windres.exe: preprocessing
> failed.
>
> So I'm pretty sure that it's an issue with this version of windres.  If
> someone knows where I should raise the bug report then I'd be happy to hear
> about it.
>
> I've worked around it by renaming my username and home directory within
> MSYS2.
>
> So I can start to have a look at some code now… anything on the TODO list
> that might be a good introduction to the KiCad sourcecode?
>
> Thanks for the reply,
>
> Regards,
>
> Bevan Weiss
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> From: Nick Østergaard [mailto:oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx]
>
> Sent: Sunday, 3 January 2016 9:15 PM
>
> To: Bevan Weiss <bevan.weiss@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Cc: KiCad Developers <kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Trouble compiling under windows
>
> I don't know much about windres, but I just tested on linux with spaces in
> the path to the source dir and spaces in the build dir name, and that built
> just fine.  Maybe there is still some quotes that is missing in
> CMakeModules/MinGWResourceCompiler.cmake.
>
> 2016-01-02 16:04 GMT+01:00 Bevan Weiss <bevan.weiss@xxxxxxxxx>:
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>> Hi all,
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>> Apologies for the spam on this, however I’m having a slight issue when
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>> trying to setup and compile a Windows development environment for Kicad.
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>> I’ve used the Winbuilder platform, which has gotten me this far, so
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>> that I’ve got a properly setup mingw environment.
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>> It also appears to have pulled in all the appropriate dependencies (as
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>> far as I can tell anyway).
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>> However I’ve run into this error message…
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>> [ 48%] Building CXX object
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>> common/CMakeFiles/common.dir/geometry/shape_file_io.cpp.obj
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>> [ 48%] Linking CXX static library libcommon.a
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>> [ 50%] Built target common
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>> [ 50%] Compiling kicad's resource file
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>> gcc: error: Weiss/MINGW-packages/mingw-w64-kicad-git/src/kicad/kicad:
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>> No such file or directory
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>>
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>> C:\KiCad\KiCad-Winbuilder\msys64\mingw64\bin\windres.exe:
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>> preprocessing failed.
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>> kicad/CMakeFiles/kicad.dir/build.make:61: recipe for target
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>> 'kicad/CMakeFiles/kicad.dir/kicad_rc.obj' failed
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>> make[2]: *** [kicad/CMakeFiles/kicad.dir/kicad_rc.obj] Error 1
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>> CMakeFiles/Makefile2:2217: recipe for target
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>> 'kicad/CMakeFiles/kicad.dir/all' failed
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>> make[1]: *** [kicad/CMakeFiles/kicad.dir/all] Error 2
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>> make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
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>> Scanning dependencies of target bitmap2component
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>> I’ve found the issue after some further investigation.
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>> It appears that whichever version of windres.exe is in msys2 doesn’t
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>> respect spaces in paths (even when passed with double quotes).  My
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>> googling says this should have been fixed way back in 2007, however
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>> perhaps it’s a regression (or something got lost in the MSYS2 stuff).
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>> Apart from the obvious of changing the folder location to not have a
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>> space, are there any other workarounds that people know of?
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>> Is this something that should be raised with the MSYS2 people? (my
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>> quick googling suggests that perhaps they just don’t care about such
>> ‘Windowisms’
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>> like folder names with spaces).
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>> Bevan Weiss
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