Geany can't find Mono's mcs

[iahung3]

Process failed (The system cannot find the file specified).

Note:

• I reverted all of my changes to filetypes.cs in Change the compiler on `filetypes.cs` doesn't work #3753
• I added C:\Program Files\Mono\bin to Windows' PATH
• Mono's mcs is a script file: on Linux, it's a shell script named mcs; on Windows, it's a batch script named mcs.bat

My thoughts:

• Should I encapsulate the path to Mono in Windows' PATH with double quotes? "C:\Program Files\Mono\bin"? There is a space in the path. It could cause problems. Windows Command Prompt has no problem running mcs. But Geany is a Linux-first program that is only ported to Windows as an afterthought.
• Or it's very likely that Geany has problems calling batch script. Does it assumed the executable to have the extension .exe?

[elextr]

The code in Geany to spawn build commands on Windows is Windows specific. It uses CreateProcessW which says "If the file name does not contain an extension, .exe is appended." so it is assumed as .exe but by Windows, not Geany.

On the command line the shell probably does the checking for .bat and other stuff but there is no shell involved in build commands in Geany.

[iahung3]

The solution is to launch mcs with cmd /c. I edited filetypes.cs and it worked. Thank you.