https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=118003
--- Comment #7 from Martin Storsjö <martin at martin dot st> --- (In reply to Jonathan Wakely from comment #6) > I have zero interest in learning any native APIs and my employer isn't > interested in Windows support, so if I can't easily get it working with code > similar to POSIX, I'm not going to work on it. > > If you or anybody else interested in better Windows support wants to > contritbue patches I'll be happy to review them. Currently the main missing > features are symlinks and permissions. Yes, that's obviously understandable. I don't have time to take on any larger rewrite myself either; your suggestion to do chdir here probably is workable if it avoids the issue (haven't tested it myself yet) - not sure in how many other cases there can be issues with such long paths though.