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@@ -132,6 +132,33 @@ Page splitting/merging * Form fields: should be similar to outlines. +MSVC Wildcard Expansion +======================= + +(This section is referenced in azure_pipelines.yml.) + +The qpdf executable built with msvc is linked with setargv.obj or +wsetargv.obj so that wildcard expansion works. It doesn't work exactly +the way a UNIX system would work in that the program itself does the +expansion (rather than the shell), which means that invoking qpdf.exe +as built by msvc will expand "*.pdf" just as it will expand *.pdf. In +some earlier versions, wildcard expansion didn't work with the msvc +executable. The way to make this work appears to be different in some +versions of MSVC than in others. As such, if upgrading MSVC or +changing the build environment, the wildcard expansion behavior of the +qpdf executable in Windows should be retested manually. + +Unfortunately, there is no automated test for wildcard expansion with +MSVC because I can't figure out how to prevent qtest from expanding +the wildcards before passing them in, and explicitly running "cmd /c +..." from qtest doesn't seem to work in Azure Pipelines, though I can +make it work locally. + +Ideally, we should figure out a way to test this in CI by having a +test that fails if wildcard expansion is broken. In the absence of +this, it will be necessary to test the behavior manually in both mingw +and msvc when run from cmd and from msys bash. + General ======= |