***BOGO*** Re: [Mingw-users] [SPAM] Re: Re: imlib2

[Earnie Boyd <earnie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting Keith Marshall <keithmarshall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> On Friday 02 May 2008 11:33, Ramiro Polla wrote:
>> > [It shouldn't be necessary...]
>> > ...to replace slashes in path names by backslashes; MS-Windows is
>> > perfectly happy to resolve path names expressed with the *nix style
>> > slash as an alternative to its default backslash, and always has
>> > been; even MS-DOS before it could handle this.
>>
>> LoadLibrary()
>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms886736.aspx
>
> Hmm.  That's the first time I've ever seen it stated "be sure to use
> backslashes, not slashes".  Does LoadLibrary() *really* fail if you
> ignore this advice?  If so, then it isn't consistent with the normal
> behaviour of the Windows API.
>

It's consistent with CreateProcess[1].

> BTW, the link you provided relates specifically to WinCE, but the same
> statement appears in MSDN's more general Windows documentation too.
>

Is this one[2] better?

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682425.aspx
[2] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms684175(VS.85).aspx

Earnie

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