i just want to shoot my both hands, eyes and legs.

NO I DID NOT MEAN __d_dirname!!!!
I MEANT dd_name!!
NOT d_name, but dd_name!!

i swear to god the other times it worked. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG? I SPENT 3 FUCKING HOURS DEBUGGING THIS SHIT!

yes i have included sys/types.h, dirent.h AND sys/stat.h AND I CAN'T DO THIS ANYMORE!!

why did you worked last time? i just wanted to implement a better library than handling all the known and unknown errors myself.

if anyone knows what is wrong, please help me, i am disperate.

Did you mean d_name

@electrineer no, that is for the dirent struct. I want the dd_name for the DIR struct.

actaully what i want is this.

when run the program it should accept an argument and that argument should be a path to a folder. and if you run
. /evalite .
it should output the name of the folder itself, in this case evalite.
or if i run
./evalite ..
it should output 'projects', the name of the folder. currently it outputs . and .. in those cases and I know the way to do this is accessing the variable dd_name because i used this in other projects of mine.

had this happen to me

check for rogue brackets

@Parzi what do you mean by that? i never heard that term before.

@zetef check for brackets {[( out of place or missing

@endor @Parzi no guys, it just doesn't want to. and i swear to god i have functional programs that worked with this. anyways, do you know how should i do this problem? i just want to output the folder name of the folder path entered as a command line argument.

example:

>pwd

>c/dev/test_folder

>./program .

>test_folder

>./program ..

>dev

i searched all of the internet and no luck.

Try if it works if you strip everything else out of the file

Can you share some code which worked with this?

Also check this https://stackoverflow.com/a/...

@electrineer https://github.com/zetef/Smedit
an older side project of mine. i used the dd_name to set the title bar text to the current folder. forgive me for the ugly code formatting and literally everything, i was just begining open source coding.

look at line 163 specifically. dir is a global DIR* structure.

@zetef does that project compile in your current environment

@electrineer yes. here is the build log if it helps:

https://pastebin.com/vWMxiTbe

and my dirent.h in my include folder from mingw:

https://pastebin.com/NWFcPDgT

@zetef isn't that a different compiler?

@electrineer omg dude. I FUCKING LOVE YOU. (no homo) YOU JUST PUT A SMILE ON MY FACE. IT FINALLY WORKED. thanks dude for helping me and staying for this long . if you ever need me contact me no problem. THAAAANKS!! I CAN BARELY HOLD MY TEARS. THIS PROBLEM WASTED HOURSSS OF MY LIFE. THANK YOUU!

@zetef this is probably why it says on the link I posted earlier: "You shouldn't be accessing the contents of a DIR directly."

@electrineer after a little more digging and using -v when compiling i found out it was using cygwin version, not the mingw version. i just hope my project will compile on a linux system because i currently do not have access to one yet. (i have to wait til september)

@zetef can't you run a vm?

@electrineer my machine has 2gb of ram and a pentium running, so nooo.
it's just a laptop from the early '10

@zetef install linux on a thumb drive then

Well yeah, non-portable hacks can break at any moment. That's what happens when you access stuff directly that doesn't even have specified content.

And a live Linux distro is easy enough to boot up from USB or DVD.