Re: Is there any way to have a string literal that is read "raw"

[Lennart Borgman]

David Kastrup wrote:

> > I was thinking of an easier way of handling w32 file names. When
> >
> > trying to build with MSYS it fails just because of the file name
> > Emacs got from somewhere is in w32 format.
> >    
>
> What does "got from somewhere" mean?  Could you provide an example?
>  

Look under why you should avoid MSYS here:

   http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/w32-build-emacs.html#checking-setup

In that example there are paths in MSYS format (ie unix format). However 
you can replace `pwd` with `pwd -W` and get those in w32 format. Then 
you get the problem I am thinking of. But thinking about it again this 
could perhaps be solved (worked around) by writing just a small exe that 
provides path info in Emacs style and compile this in configure.bat? 
Would that be possible?

> emacs --eval '(do-something-with (pop command-line-args-left))' "$FILENAME"
>  
The problem is the strings are inside the eval in my example.