Hello Robert Hook,
I have been trying to drag my MDL application forward. I ran into an issue with the path to my Application. I was using the _MakeFilePath symbol and noticed since I had long directory name it was causing an issue. Is there a different symbol which uses the mangled directory names? From looking at the MicroStation Connect examples I believe that the issue was addressed. Any suggestions?
Regards
Peter
Hi Volker Hüfner and Jon Summers - as always, thank you for your very helpful and appropriate replys. Hope you both have a happy holiday weekend.
Hi Peter Howe,
I suspect you may not have full Microsoft 8dot3name support enabled on one or more drives on your computer. Most make file projects to date (.mke and .mki) files are/were written in a way that likely does not take well to paths having spaces in them. FWIW. This is a project that I am in the very early stages of moving along (update sample make projects and a wiki outlining what changes are required to existing make files).
Microsoft provides a tool shipped with the operating system (fsutil) that allows you to enable/set Microsoft 8dot3name support for: Registry (new file creation), and Files and Folders. I am not certain, but I think there may also be an fsutil command to create 8dot3names for "already existing files/folders" adding the 8dot3name entries in the FAT. Sorry, don't seem to have a reference handy at the moment.
Here are a couple tests I have handy and can provide to get you started with the articles above.
As mentioned, a full verbose (sequential) build log (and full system environment variables) often proves to be what is needed to resolve most issues.
HTH,Bob