Hi Niklas, On Jan 4, 2013 5:36 AM, "Niklas Gürtler" <<a href="mailto:profclonk@gmx.de">profclonk@gmx.de</a>> wrote: > > Dear readers, > > quoting of arguments to command line programs works different on Windows > than on *nix, for example: > > When executing MinGW's gcc.exe from cmd.exe: > > Typed in cmd.exe Gets transformed to > "foo.exe" foo.exe > "fo\"o.exe" fo"o.exe > "foo bar.exe" foo bar.exe > "foo\bar.exe" foo\bar.exe > "foo\\bar.exe" foo\\bar.exe > "foo\\\"bar.exe" foo\"bar.exe > "foo\\\bar.exe" foo\\\bar.exe > "foo\\\\\\\"bar.exe" foo\\\"bar.exe > > Filenames containing " are of course invalid, but this is only to > demonstrate the quoting behaviour.Note that these example strings will > result in ONE SINGLE argument (i.e. ONE argv[] entry) to the program. > > So i wrote the attached patch to let pkg-config output correctly quoted > strings on Windows. Sorry, I missed this earlier. I didn't look too closely at the patch because I think I'm missing a couple things. 1. What is the problem you're trying to address? I understand it had to do with weird quoting, but I can't tell what the issue is. 2. What exactly is the patch intended to do? It's light on commit messages and comments. -- Dan