[Mingw-users] gcc not handling quoted strings

[Earnie Boyd]

--- Adam Fedor <fedor@doc.com> wrote:
> I'm new to using MingW, but I'm still not sure why this won't work when
> QUOTED is defined on the command line. MingW's gcc seems to strip the
> quotes off the string:
> 
> -------- testit.c----------
> #ifndef QUOTED
> #define QUOTED "string"
> #endif
> 
> static char *string = QUOTED;
> ----------------------------
> 
> Here I'm running the MingW gcc compiler on top of cygwin (i.e. using
> cygwin's bash):
> 
> BASH.EXE-2.03$ type gcc
> gcc is hashed (//c/gcc-2.95.2/bin/gcc)
> BASH.EXE-2.03$ gcc -v
> Reading specs from
> c:\gcc-2.95.2\bin\..\lib\gcc-lib\i386-mingw32\2.95.2\specs
> gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)
> BASH.EXE-2.03$ gcc -c testit.c
> BASH.EXE-2.03$ gcc -DQUOTED=\"astring\" -c testit.c
> testit.c:5: `astring' undeclared here (not in a function)
> BASH.EXE-2.03$ /usr/bin/gcc -DQUOTED=\"astring\" -c testit.c
> BASH.EXE-2.03$
> 

This is Cygwin related problem.  It has been a known problem with Cygwin for
years.  I know that the Cygwin developers have recently revisited the issue and
some changes were made in hopes of correcting this problem.  Please follow up
with this on the Cygwin list.

Cheers,

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