Re: [Mingw-users] Precendence of COM and EXE

[Keith M. <kei...@us...>]

On 04/02/12 16:38, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:22:01 +0000
>> From: Keith Marshall <keithmarshall@...>
>> CC: Werner LEMBERG <wl@...>, eliz@...
>>
>> On 03/02/12 08:07, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>> See how Emacs does it, and you will realize that things aren't really
>>> that hard or complicated.
>>
>> Emacs may not be the best example here; not because there's anything
>> intrinsically wrong with it, but simply because the sheer size of the
>> code base may seem intimidating.
> 
> The code I had in mind is rather small, see below.  It can be easily
> understood by someone who knows nothing about Emacs on Windows.

This helps, thanks.

>> ...description of mingw-get.exe behaviour snipped...
> 
> runemacs.exe, which was what I had in mind, does something very
> similar.

Werner apparently wasn't intimidated.  Others may be.  Knowing that they
should look for the source for runemacs.exe may help to lower the
potential intimidation barrier.

For completeness: in the corresponding mingw-get.exe case, the source
may be found in src/clistub.c

-- 
Regards,
Keith.