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Saturday June 26, 2004
01:29 AM
Tripping up MS
As posted by Nobu Nakada:
cl.exe apparently doesn't pass arguments with spaces to link.exe correctly.
$ cat a.c
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
return 0;
}
$ cat a.bat
@cl.exe -Fea.exe a.c/link "/libpath:"c:\Program Files""
$./a.bat
Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 12.00.8804 for 80x86
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1984-1998. All rights reserved.
a.c
Microsoft (R) Incremental Linker Version 6.00.8447
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1992-1998. All rights reserved.
/out:a.exe
/libpath:c:\Program
Files
a.obj
LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file "Files.obj"
And I thought the Solaris linker was a pain. Good grief.
--Larry Wall in stab.c from the perl source code
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