Re: Please help me passing a path to preprocessor

[jp dot guillemin at free dot fr]

Hi Eljay, Mihnea,

Thank you for the solution,

For information I've found another one :

-DMYPATH=\"/usr/local/thepath\"

then the shell doesn't parse the " anymore

Regards

JP

Selon Eljay Love-Jensen <eljay@adobe.com>:

> Hi jp,
> 
> If you are using MYPATH as a string in your source code, you may want to put
> double-quotes around it in the define in the makefile.
> 
> -DMYPATH='"/usr/local/thepath"'
> 
> Note that the single-quotes are chomped by the shell that the make spawns to
> launch the compiler.
> 
> Another solution is to string-ize the MYPATH macro variable in your code
> via:
> 
> #define STR_2(x) #x
> #define STR(x) STR_2(x)
> 
> STR(MYPATH)
> 
> The helper macro function STR_2 is necessary so the STR x parm gets expanded.
>  Otherwise you'd end up with "MYPATH" instead of the expansion of MYPATH into
> /usr/local/thepath that you are hoping for, which STR_2 then stringifies.
> 
> You may want to do this instead for STR_2...
> 
> #define STR_2(x) L ## #x
> 
> ...if you need to work with wchar_t strings instead.
> 
> HTH,
> --Eljay
> 
> 
>