I use dmd for windows.
The dmd outputs object files as:

dmd -c foo/bar.d  -> foo\bar.obj
dmd -c foo\bar.d  -> .\bar.obj  (Not good!)

And, the linker:

dmd foo/bar.obj   -> It tries to link foo.obj with /BAR option... dmd foo\bar.obj   -> It works as expected (outputs .\bar.exe.)

If one uses '/' as separator,
compiler is useful but linker is not,
and if '\', opposite.
It's much of a bother!

I think that it's nice if both can be used equivalently.

Robert (Japanese)

Don't use / for a separator under windows, it just doesn't work that well. To control where the .obj file goes, try the -of flag.

"Robert" <Robert_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:br9m53$182q$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> I use dmd for windows.
> The dmd outputs object files as:
>
> dmd -c foo/bar.d  -> foo\bar.obj
> dmd -c foo\bar.d  -> .\bar.obj  (Not good!)
>
> And, the linker:
>
> dmd foo/bar.obj   -> It tries to link foo.obj with /BAR option... dmd foo\bar.obj   -> It works as expected (outputs .\bar.exe.)
>
> If one uses '/' as separator,
> compiler is useful but linker is not,
> and if '\', opposite.
> It's much of a bother!
>
> I think that it's nice if both can be used equivalently.
>
> Robert (Japanese)

In article <bramlo$2qp5$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Walter says...
>
>Don't use / for a separator under windows, it just doesn't work that well. To control where the .obj file goes, try the -of flag.

I use dmd in Cygwin.
So, it is convenient if '/' is also available...

Robert (Japanese)

I take that back, sorry.
If '/' is used, compiler/linker can't determine
whether '/foo/bar' is an absolute path or windows flags.

Robert (Japanese)

Robert wrote:

>I take that back, sorry.
>If '/' is used, compiler/linker can't determine
>whether '/foo/bar' is an absolute path or windows flags.
>
>Robert (Japanese)
>  
>
Don't quotes "" work?

In article <brbgvm$uk1$1@digitaldaemon.com>, J Anderson says...
>
>Robert wrote:
>
>>I take that back, sorry.
>>If '/' is used, compiler/linker can't determine
>>whether '/foo/bar' is an absolute path or windows flags.
>>
>>Robert (Japanese)
>> 
>>
>Don't quotes "" work?
>

I'm afraid that it didn't work.

Robert (Japanese)

"Robert" <Robert_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:brbj8e$12nt$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> In article <brbgvm$uk1$1@digitaldaemon.com>, J Anderson says...
> >
> >Robert wrote:
> >
> >>I take that back, sorry.
> >>If '/' is used, compiler/linker can't determine
> >>whether '/foo/bar' is an absolute path or windows flags.
> >>
> >>Robert (Japanese)
> >>
> >>
> >Don't quotes "" work?
> >
>
> I'm afraid that it didn't work.
>
> Robert (Japanese)

It seems the Windows or C runtime automatically extracts quoted strings as a unit.

Sean

"Robert" <Robert_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:brb3ob$c08$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> In article <bramlo$2qp5$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Walter says...
> >
> >Don't use / for a separator under windows, it just doesn't work that
well.
> >To control where the .obj file goes, try the -of flag.
>
> I use dmd in Cygwin.
> So, it is convenient if '/' is also available...

Many folks have run into problems using Cygwin's shell. The / appears to be one of them, another is the shell doesn't seem to handle child process environments (upon which the dmc.exe driver depends) correctly.