Re: Windows Build Error, C:Strawberry221perlbinperl.exe command not found

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 21:42:35 -0600
> From: address@hidden
> 
> I am automating the Texinfo build process in Perl via my new Alien::Texinfo 
> software:
> 
> https://github.com/wbraswell/alien-texinfo
> 
> This build process works successfully on most operating systems, but a few 
> notable exceptions exist.
> 
> Using the AppVeyor testing platform for Microsoft Windows, we see an odd 
> error:
> C:Strawberry221perlbinperl.exe: command not found

You need to set things up so that the above file name uses forward
slashes, not backslashes, as in "C:/Strawberry221/perl/bin/perl.exe"

Here's the configure command I use to build Texinfo on MS-Windows:

     PERL=/d/usr/Perl/bin/perl PERL_EXT_LDFLAGS=-static-libgcc CC='gcc 
-static-libgcc' CFLAGS='-O2 -gdwarf-4 -g3' ./configure --prefix=d:/usr 
--enable-threads=windows

Change /d/usr/Perl/bin/perl to match your Perl installation,
i.e. /c/Strawberry221/perl/bin/perl, and change --prefix=d:/usr to
match your target installation directory.

> Searching through the entire log, we can see all other references to 
> "perl.exe" are the correct full path of
> "C:\Strawberry221\perl\bin\perl.exe", but in this particular error we can see 
> that somehow all the backslash
> characters have been stripped to leave us with the obviously-incorrect 
> "C:Strawberry221perlbinperl.exe"
> string.

Yes, the backslash is a quote character in Unix shells, so if you want
a literal backslash, you need to double them.  In this case, it is
easier to use forward slashes instead.