[build2] error when trying to compile build2

[Phillip Shelton]

Thank you for your quick response.

In order;
 1/ OS Name	Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise Version	10.0.19042 Build 19042
 2/ yes it is the vanilla command line.
 3/ yes that is my working version of MinGW.  I will download and try the official version soon.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Boris Kolpackov <boris at codesynthesis.com> 
Sent: Thursday, 10 February 2022 11:44 PM
To: Phillip Shelton via users <users at build2.org>
Cc: Phillip Shelton <phillip.shelton at cardno.com.au>
Subject: Re: [build2] error when trying to compile build2

Phillip Shelton via users <users at build2.org> writes:

> >c:\compilers\build2_build\build2-toolchain-0.15.0-a.0.20220204083418.
> >a451ee2a9b05\build2>build2\b-boot 
> >config.cxx=c:\compilers\mingw64\bin\g++ config.bin.lib=static 
> >build2\exe{b}
> terminate called after throwing an instance of 'butl::invalid_basic_path<char>'
>   what():  invalid filesystem path

Hm, I tried to reproduce this but could not. So there must be something special about your environment. Could you provide more information/try the following:

1. What version of Windows are you using? We have seen reports that
   MinGW GCC has issues with Windows 11.

2. Are you running this from the vanilla Windows Command Prompt? If not,
   could you try that?

3. I assume c:\compilers\mingw64\bin\g++ is your own MinGW GCC you've
   mentioned earlier. If so, could you try these steps with the
   "official" MinGW GCC from build2-mingw packages just to see if
   it makes a difference?