Case sensitivity when linking

[Lewis via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 30 January 2017 at 03:29:21 UTC, Chris Wright wrote:
> I'd think the compiler would use the module name you supplied 
> in the imported module as the canonical name. Are you not 
> supplying module names? Are you changing them between 
> incremental compilation steps? Is the compiler ignoring them?
>
> If you don't supply a module name, the compiler could obtain 
> the canonical file path with casing:
>
> OSX: 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/370186/how-do-i-find-the-correct-case- of-a-filename
>
>   FSRef ref;
>   FSPathMakeRef(path, &ref, NULL);
>   FSRefMakePath(&ref, canonicalPath, MAX_PATH_LENGTH);
>   return canonicalPath;
>
> Windows: 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2113822/python-getting-filename-case-as- stored-in-windows
>
>   return GetLongPathName(GetShortPathName(path));
>
> Linux:
>
>   (x) => x
>
> Not sure if that would be better.

I haven't been using a module name inside the file itself, I 
generally just use the filename.