Directory iteration multiple issues.

[evoskuil]

I'm encountering multiple problems attempting to use the latest build of GSL on Windows to enumerate files and/or directories.

Using the documentation as an example:

dir = directory.open(".", error_text) ?

if defined(dir)
  for dir.file as f
      echo "file:$(f.name) has size: $(f.size)"
  endfor
else
    abort "Error: " + error_text
endif

The run fails because f.name (and f.size) is undefined. But further trials also shows:

• Based on the size of the enumerations, it's clear that all files and directories are enumerated (despite the dir.file qualification). This gives the same length enumeration as dir. even when there is a mix of files and directories in the opened directory.
• When dir.directory is qualified, no directories (or files) are ever enumerated, the enumeration is always empty.
• The enumerated objects (file and path) do define a path attribute, but it is always empty.
• No documented attributes other than path are defined on returned files or directories.

This last item is not technically a break, but would make portable code hard, because presumably this is a behavior specific to Windows. But note that other path references in GSL on Windows don't require forward slashing:

• The value of dir.path is correct in the case where the opened directory ends with "" but not when it ends with "/" (or when it is not terminated).

../libbitcoin/include  => x:\xxxxx\libbitcoin/
../libbitcoin/include/ => x:\xxxxx\libbitcoin/
../libbitcoin/include\ => x:\xxxxx\libbitcoin\include/

I'm really stuck at this point. I looked through the GSL source, but it's going to be a slog for me. Any help would be much appreciated!

[evoskuil]

I've located and resolved the last bullet item, just a case of hardwired "/" in some cases, where the code normalizes to the platform in other cases.

[evoskuil]

The other items are a consequence of UNICODE being defined. This implies that some code is issuing a UNICODE definition or API call.