[ragel-users] Strange behavior with included files on Windows/MinGW

[Adrian Thurston]

Okay, thanks for the report.

Jose Quinteiro wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Including files does not seem to work properly on Ragel compiled for 
> Windows using mingw.
> 
> Everything works fine with both files in the same directory:
> 
> C:\Documents and Settings\jose>w:\ragel-6.3\ragel\ragel.exe atoi-actions.rl
> 
> Move one of the files into a  subdirectory:
> 
> C:\Documents and Settings\jose>move atoi-machine.rl subdir
> 
> Ragel complains correctly if we forget to add the subdirectory to the 
> search path:
> 
> C:\Documents and Settings\jose>w:\ragel-6.3\ragel\ragel.exe atoi-actions.rl
> atoi-actions.rl:20:27: include: failed to locate file
> atoi-actions.rl:20:27: include: attempted: "atoi-machine.rl"
> 
> 
> However, if we do add the directory to the search path, ragel finds the 
> file but fails to import anything from it!
> 
> C:\Documents and Settings\jose>w:\ragel-6.3\ragel\ragel.exe -Isubdir 
> atoi-actions.rl
> atoi-actions.rl:22:2: write statement given but there are no machine 
> instantiations
> 
> 
> I suspect this is an MinGW bug as it's not reproducible on Mac OS X.  I 
> figured people might want to know anyway, since MinGW is listed on the 
> home page as an option.
> 
> Saludos,
> Jose.
> 
> 
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