From 6957a17434685407f13c81c2ea43327798c2f7b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Rebecca N. Palmer" <rebecca_palmer@zoho.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 08:00:22 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fgValidatePath: fix \ vs / Windows bug

---
 src/Main/util.cxx | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/Main/util.cxx b/src/Main/util.cxx
index 40d3244d6..d6be946fa 100644
--- a/src/Main/util.cxx
+++ b/src/Main/util.cxx
@@ -216,6 +216,9 @@ std::string fgValidatePath (const std::string& path, bool write)
         normed_path2 = SGPath(path2.dir()).realpath()
             + "/" + path2.file();
     }
+#if defined(_MSC_VER) /*for MS compilers */ || defined(_WIN32) /*needed for non MS windows compilers like MingW*/
+     normed_path2 = SGPath(normed_path2).str(); // convert \ to /
+#endif
 
     // Check
     if (fgValidatePath_internal(normed_path1, write).empty() ||
-- 
2.39.5