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Bug 4953 - On Windows, sdl2-config should be written in something other than bash
Summary: On Windows, sdl2-config should be written in something other than bash
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: SDL
Classification: Unclassified
Component: build (show other bugs)
Version: don't know
Hardware: All Windows (All)
: P2 enhancement
Assignee: Sam Lantinga
QA Contact: Sam Lantinga
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Reported: 2020-01-18 01:03 UTC by Michael J. Walsh
Modified: 2020-01-18 01:08 UTC (History)
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link script to invoke cscript.exe (112 bytes, text/plain)
2020-01-18 01:06 UTC, Michael J. Walsh 		Details
a javascript which imitates it's bash namesake (1.93 KB, text/javascript)
2020-01-18 01:08 UTC, Michael J. Walsh 		Details
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Description Michael J. Walsh 2020-01-18 01:03:50 UTC 
I'd like to propose that in the Windows version of SDL, sdl2-config should be written in natively supported script system, like a batch file or Windows Script Host script.

I appreciate bash can work on Windows in wsl, cygwin, msys2 and probably others, but it's still not universally available.
Comment 1 Michael J. Walsh 2020-01-18 01:06:44 UTC 
Created attachment 4169 [details]
link script to invoke cscript.exe

I'm attaching two documents:

sdl2-config.bat - a link script to invoke cscript.exe, and

sdl2-config.script - a javascript which imitates it's bash namesake. The only difference is that it assumes the prefix is the script's parent folder so if the script is in:

C:\Users\Shared\Downloads\SDL-ver2\bin

the prefix is set as

C:\Users\Shared\Downloads\SDL-ver2
Comment 2 Michael J. Walsh 2020-01-18 01:08:23 UTC 
Created attachment 4170 [details]
a javascript which imitates it's bash namesake