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I just started back fiddling around with Hugo. I've got the latest compiler/library; I'm on WinXP.

Seems back in 2002 I had the same problem I'm having now: getting Hugo to compile through the GUI frontend. (No problems from the command line, so far.) The error is 'unable to compile Exit code = -1 (1). Yes, my path name has spaces in it as suggested by Kent's response in raif below (this dates from last year, btw)

Is your path by chance not "c:\hugo3" but instead something with a space in
it, like "c:\Program Files\Hugo"? If that's the case, this may be due to a
bug in the compiler-launching functionality of the Windows front-end, which
I'll need to address.

--Kent

Any chance of getting this fixed?

Oops, I thought that was fixed. Can you quote the entire "Unable to compile" line, which should also include the command line it tried to use?

Oops, sorry:

Unable to compile using ""C:\Program Files\Hugo\hc.exe" @list=. -ls C:\Program Files\Hugo\Samples\shell.hug " - Exit code = -1 (1)

That's weird. It should work. I just tested it running from a folder called "Test Folder", with the space, and it worked.

Possibilities: Are you sure you have the v3.0.06 Windows front-end hcwin.exe? Is it possible you copied over the Windows compiler hc.exe with a DOS version? (That'll prevent hcwin.exe from being able to call the compiler as a subprocess.) Also, I may've somehow screwed up what I put in the archive for the released version. I'll have to test that when I get a chance; alternately, I can send you my hcwin.exe.

Sorry for the delay in responding!

Well, I just did a fresh install, just in case, and installed it to the Program Files directory. Still getting the same error. (using the hugo3win32 compiler/library dated 27 July 03 from plover.net.)

Actually, what seems to be happening in the install to c:\hugo (as opposed to the c:\program files\hugo install) is that it generates the above error whenever the .hug file is not located in the Hugo root directory. (in other words, i can't 'browse' to, say, 'c:/some directory/games/game.hug')
If game.hug isn't in c:/hugo, I get the error.

Hope that clarifies things a bit. :)

Further clarification of the above post.

The error is being generated when the source file is located in a directory with spaces in the name. (i.e c:/documents and settings/desktop/hugo.)

Compiling from a (non-c:/hugo) directory without name spaces works fine.

Hopefully this is the last comment I make on this subject, and I will have learned my lesson about doing all this testing before posting! :)

Okay. If the compiler is located in c:\program files\hugo, it does work. The error is actually being generated when you try to compile a .hug file that's located in a directory with spaces.

Hugella wrote:Okay. If the compiler is located in c:\program files\hugo, it does work. The error is actually being generated when you try to compile a .hug file that's located in a directory with spaces.

Okay, I'll try to look into that, then.

I have nothing to add on-topic, but I did just want to chime in now that I have started programming every day or night (usually not both, I mean, hey, I'm not going to lie to my treasured denizens) and give Kent my quarterly can of HUGO PROPS. I have been toiling around in someone else's C++ code at work as of late and coming home to write Hugo is the kind of relief I normally get only by use of pins and needles from the Asian Full Body Happy Ending Massage Parlor down by the National Honey Board in Longmont, Colorado.

Well, at least my mom would be proud.

Anyway, try this updated hcwin.exe:

http://www.plover.net/~hugo/hugobeta/hcwin.exe

to see if it fixes the problem.

It works! :)

Thanks, Kent.