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Include header path change from Windows to Linux

Asked 2009-02-21T17:28:50.900
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I'm porting an application written in C++ from Windows to Linux. I have a problem with the header files path. Windows uses \ and Linux uses /. I am finding it cumbersome to change this in each and every source and header file. Is there some work around?

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The Windows APIs has always supported forward slash as directory separator. And that is because as far back as at least DOS 3.1 it was supported as well. The problem has always been COMMAND.COM and CMD.EXE. They use forward slash as the option indicator (instead of dash as found in Unix). Never ever use backslashes for directory separators in languages where a backslash in a string is used to escape special characters.

If you lack a Unix shell, don't you have an editor that does search/replace across multiple files? Heck, write a small program to do it if you have to. Parsing C++ source code for its #include statements can't be hard.

answered 2009-02-21T18:27:25.190

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