[ODE] ODE as DLL

nlin@nlin.net nlin at nlin.net
Fri Jan 11 19:35:01 2002


> > Forgive me if this is obvious, but what do you mean by "dosbox+MSVC"?
> 
> i meant the standard dos-like command window - cmd.exe under NT/2000.
> no quoting problems here. no real shell features either, but that's a
> different story...

In that case, I think there is still a problem here.

The quote and parentheses handling under 16-bit Win9X command.com is
inconsistent with bash.exe.  Use of cygnus make requires use of bash.exe
(as far as I can tell; adding SHELL=commmand.com to the make command doesn't
work). Bash.exe must pass commands eventually to the underlying command.com
for execution.  This translation step (bash->command.com) causes quotes to get
lost (because at one point the compilation command is quoted, for the
configurator, and otherwise it is not quoted, for normal execution) and 
therefore the compilation commands, containing parentheses as string
parameters, interfere with bash when making the configurator. This is why I
used two separate compilation commands, one quotable and one non-quotable.

Do you have a Win9X machine you can test this on? I can't come up with
any other working solution for Win9X. 

-Norman