Re: Bug: mingw32-make can'r process unicode filenames

Hi Petar.

I am not a defender of mingw32-make and I try to be careful to observe the Etiquette.

With that said - why don't you use the ASCII filename primer.c ?

1. the filename пример.c can take 15 bytes in UTF-8 which in worst case can collide with 8.3 rule.

2. there is a serious uncertainity in the last character 'c' if it is an ASCII c or cyrilic c

3. the uncertainity growes to be ridiculous in пример.exe where you have 6 uncertain characters.

Generally - if you use complex Unicode (read: non ASCII) characters in filenames, you are asking for trouble. If not by a compiler or sending the file from one application to another (which is probably the case with ming32-make) than for portability. Just imagine how unnecessary it would be to ask applications in Windows to "understand", that пример is the same as ПРИМЕР or ПрИмЕр

I am not against "foreign" languages and I fight hard to use Unicode fonts of all kind in eg. Arduino displays, but I would never ask for non-ASCII filenames and it would not surprise me if no one of the "nice people" that created the mingw tool would rush to resolve this "bug".

Sent: Friday, September 27, 2019 at 7:03 PM

From: "Петар Каприш" <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: [Mingw-users] Bug: mingw32-make can'r process unicode filenames

I want to report what i think is a bug in mingw32-make, namely, it

doesn't seem to be able to process files whose names contain non-ASCII

characters. For example,

If I have a Makefile with the following content:

all:

gcc пример.c

.PHONY: all

and run mingw32-make, I get the following error:

gcc ??N??????uN?.c

gcc: error: л┐Л: No such file or directory

gcc: fatal error: no input files

compilation terminated.

Makefile:2: recipe for target 'i»?all' failed

mingw32-make: *** [i»?all] Error 1

however when I simply run "gcc пример.c" from cmd, it has no problem

compiling it.

When a non-ASCII filename is one of the targets, or is used in a

Makefile in any other way, make is simply not capable of processing it.

Other info:

Machine is a Windows 7 SP1 (64-bit)

GCC details:

Using built-in specs.

COLLECT_GCC=gcc

COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=c:/mingw/bin/../libexec/gcc/mingw32/8.2.0/lto-wrapper.exe

Target: mingw32

Configured with: ../src/gcc-8.2.0/configure --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --host=m

ingw32 --target=mingw32 --prefix=/mingw --disable-win32-registry --with-arch=i58

6 --with-tune=generic --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,fortran,ada --with-p

kgversion='MinGW.org GCC-8.2.0-3' --with-gmp=/mingw --with-mpfr=/mingw --with-mp

c=/mingw --enable-static --enable-shared --enable-threads --with-dwarf2 --disabl

e-sjlj-exceptions --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --with-libiconv-prefix=

/mingw --with-libintl-prefix=/mingw --enable-libstdcxx-debug --with-isl=/mingw -

-enable-libgomp --disable-libvtv --enable-nls --disable-build-format-warnings

Thread model: win32

gcc version 8.2.0 (MinGW.org GCC-8.2.0-3)

Binutils version: GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.32

MinGW version (from the _mingw.h header):

5002002

The bug obviously doesn't have much to do with the terminal so it can be

replicated both on cmd and MSYS, but in case it matters, "uname -a" on

MSYS gives the following output:

MINGW32_NT-6.1 USER-PC 1.0.19(0.48/3/2) 2016-07-13 17:45 i686 Msys

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