[ccache] State of ccache on Windows

[Michael Augustin]

Hi Joel, Hi Patrick,

I changed the code regarding your comments and rebased it on the latest tip of the ccache repo. Please take again a look at it.

Kind regards,
Michael

Am 14.10.2013 um 20:59 schrieb Joel Rosdahl <joel at rosdahl.net>:

> Hi Michael,
> 
> > what is the state of CCache on Windows?
> 
> Don't know as I've never tried it myself on Windows, but Ramiro Polla and Patrick von Reth have been contributing win32 code. Your patch looks reasonable if it's not a bad idea to normalize drive letter case and slashes in paths in Windows. Any thoughts from Ramiro or Patrick?
> 
> A couple of things, though: 
> 
> * The loops where you change backslashes to forward slashes evaluate strlen(p) for each character in the string. That's not very efficient - calculate the size once outside the loop instead.
> * Setting the character after the string to 0x0 is redundant since the string is NUL-terminated already.
> 
> -- Joel
> 
> On 11 October 2013 21:16, Michael Augustin <maugustin at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi CCache Developer,
> 
> what is the state of CCache on Windows? Is it working together with cmake and Unix Makefiles on Windows, without msys, but with cygwin?
> 
> I ask because I've created a patch some time ago and send it to this list. It make sure that all path are converted to forward slash paths just before comparing against already hashed data. It also make sure that absolute windows paths starting with driveletters are recognized as absolute paths - e.g. for replacing that part with CCACHE_BASEDIR value.
> 
> I've added my patch here again, but it's possible that it doesn't apply cleanly since I've posted it already at 20.06.2013.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Kind regards,
> Michael
> 
> 
> Am 16.09.2013 um 22:55 schrieb Michael Augustin <maugustin at gmx.net>:
> 
> > Hi Patrick,
> >
> > I used slashes because of CMake. It doesn't like backslashes in path names.
> >
> > Windows is able to deal with both, but since software development should work cross platform, it's very useful to stick with one format. CMake/MinGW/Cygwin - all useful tools on Windows work better with slashes in pathnames.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Michael
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